ERI affiliated faculty members are listed below in alphabetical order by last name.
Shafiqa Ahmadi
Professor of Clinical Education, USC Rossier School of Education and Co-Director for the Center for Education, Identity, and Social Justice
Email: sahmadi@usc.edu
Maria Aranda
Professor, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, Executive Director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, and Director of Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core at USC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
Email: aranda@usc.edu
Hector Amaya
Professor of Communication, USC Annenberg and Director of the School of Communication
Email: hectoram@usc.edu
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
Professor of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Associate Dean for Community Initiatives, and Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement, Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Email: baezcond@usc.edu
Chris Benner
Professor of Environmental Studies, Executive Director of the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change, the Institute for Social Transformation, and the Dorothy E. Everett Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship Chair, University of California, Santa Cruz
Email: cbenner@ucsc.edu
Ricky Bluthenthal
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, USC Keck School of Medicine, Associate Dean for Social Justice, Institute for Health Promonition & Disease Prevention, and Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Email: rbluthen@usc.edu
Marlon Boarnet
Professor of Public Policy and Chair of the Urban Planning & Spatial Analysis Department, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and Director, METRANS Transportation Center
Email: boarnet@usc.edu
Laurie Brand
Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Relations & Middle East Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: brand@usc.edu
J. Mijin Cha
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Email:jmijin@ucsc.edu
Darnell Cole
Professor of Education, USC Rossier School of Education and Co-director of the Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice
Email: darnelc@usc.edu
Santina Contreras
Santina Contreras is an Assistant Professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Email: santinac@usc.edu
Michael Cousineau
Clinical Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine, and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Preventive Medicine. He teaches in both the Masters in Public Health program and in the Professionalism and the Practice of Medicine.
Email: cousinea@usc.edu
Lara Cushing
Assistant Professor and Jonathan and Karin Fielding Presidential Chair in Health Equity – Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Email: lcushing@ucla.edu
Morteza Dehghani
Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: mdehghan@usc.edu
Juan De Lara
Associate Professor in the department of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and Director of the Latinx and Latin American Studies Center.
Email: jdelara@usc.edu
Deisy Del Real
Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Moreover, from 2022 to 2026, she serves as the appointed delegate of the American Sociological Association (ASA) to the International Sociological Association (ISA, UNESCO)
Email: deisydel@usc.edu
William Deverell
Professor of History, Spatial Sciences, and Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: deverell@usc.edu
Christina Dunbar-Hester
Associate Professor of Media, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Email: dunbarhe@usc.edu
Philip Ethington
Professor of History, Political Science, and Spatial Sciences and Co-Director of Center for Transformative Scholarship
Email: philipje@usc.edu
Robeson Taj Frazier
Associate Professor of Communication, Director of Doctoral Studies, and Director of the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg (IDEA), USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Email: rfrazier@usc.edu
Niels W. Frenzen
Sidney M. and Audrey M. Irmas Endowed Clinical Professor of Law and Director, USC Immigration Clinic
Email: nfrenzen@law.usc.edu
Brittany Friedman
Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: brittany.friedman@usc.edu
Zach Gassoumis
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine
Email: Zach.Gassoumis@med.usc.edu
G. Thomas Goodnight
Professor of Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Email: gtg@usc.edu
Leah Gose
Turpanjian Postdoctoral Fellow, USC Equity Research Institute
Email: lgose@usc.edu
Ariela Gross
Distinguished Professor, UCLA School of Law
Email: grossa@law.ucla.edu
Sarah Gualtieri
Professor in the Departments of American Studies and Ethnicity, and History and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Middle East Studies
Email: gualtier@usc.edu
Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
Professor of Political Science and the Academic Executive Director at The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University
Email: hancock.39@osu.edu
Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Professor Emerita of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: sotelo@usc.edu
Stanley Huey
Associate Professor of Psychology and American Studies and Ethnicity, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: hueyjr@usc.edu
Jane Junn
USC Associates Chair in Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: junn@usc.edu
Annette M. Kim
Associate Professor and Director of Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB), USC Price School Public Policy
mail: annettek@usc.edu
Josh Kun
Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication, USC Annenberg and American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Dornsife, and Vice Provost for the Arts
Email: jkun@usc.edu
Lon Kurashige
Professor of History and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: kurashig@usc.edu
Morris Levy
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife
Email: morrisl@usc.edu
Lihua Liu
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences, and Director and Principle Investigator of the Surveillance Epidemiology End Results (SEER) Program, USC Keck School of Medicine
Email: lihualiu@usc.edu
Jessica Marglin
Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion, Law and History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: marglin@usc.edu
Martha Matsuoka
Associate Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy; Executive Director, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute; Interim Faculty Director, Center for Community Based Learning; Chaangeir of the Board of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
Email: matsuoka@oxy.edu
Tatiana Melguizo
Professor, USC Rossier School of Education
Email: melguizo@usc.edu
Donald E. Miller
Leonard K. Firestone Professor of Religion, Co-Founder and Director of Strategic Initiatives of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC
Email: demiller@usc.edu
Natalia Molina
Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Dean’s Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity
Email: natalia.molina@usc.edu
Rachel Morello-Frosch
Environmental Health scientist and Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley
Email: rmf@berkeley.edu
Alaina Morgan
Assistant Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: alainamo@usc.edu
Roseann Mulligan
Charles M. Goldstein Professor of Community Dentistry Associate Dean, Community Health Programs and Hospital Affairs; Chair, Division of Dental Public Health and Pediatric Dentistry; Professor of Gerontology, USC Davis School of Gerontology
Email: mulligan@usc.edu
Dowell Myers
Professor of Urban Planning, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and Director of Population Dynamics Research Group
Email: dowell@usc.edu
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity and Comparative Literature at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: vnguyen@usc.edu
Ann Owens
Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, with courtesy appointments in Public Policy and Spatial Sciences
Email: annowens@usc.edu
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
Florence Everline Professor of Sociology and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
Email: parrenas@usc.edu
Parveen Parmar
Chief of the Division of Global Emergency Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine
Email: pparmar@usc.edu
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Associate Professor of History, Spatial Sciences and Law, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: perlrose@usc.edu
Christian Phillips
Assistant Professor of Political Science, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: christian.d.phillips@usc.edu
Jean Lantz Reisz
Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, and Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, and Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Email: jreisz@law.usc.edu
Elda Maria Roman
Associate Professor of English, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: emr@usc.edu
Rachel Rosner
Research Associate
Email: rachrosner@aol.com
Robert Rueda
Stephen B. Crocker Professor in Education, USC Rossier School of Education and joint appointment in the Psychology Department.
Email: rueda@usc.edu
Emily Ryo
Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, Duke University
Email: ryo@law.duke.edu
James Sadd
Professor of Environmental Science, Occidental College
Email: jsadd@oxy.edu
Leland Saito
Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: lsaito@usc.edu
George Sanchez
Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Director, USC Dornsife Center for Diversity and Democracy
Email: georges@usc.edu
Dan Schrage
Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife
Email: dschrage@usc.edu
Laura Isabel Serna
Associate Professor of History and Cinema and Media Studies, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Email: lserna@cinema.usc.edu
Nayan Shah
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: nayan.shah@usc.edu
Roberto Suro
Joint appointment: Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
Email: suro@usc.edu
Veronica Terriquez
Professor of Urban Planning and Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California Los Angeles
Email: terriquez@luskin.ucla.edu
April D. Thames
Professor-in-Residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles
Email: AThames@mednet.ucla.edu
Avelardo Valdez
Cleofas and Victor Ramirez Professor (Practice , Policy, Research and Advocacy for the Latino Population) USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Email: avelardv@usc.edu
Diane Winston
Associate Professor of Journalism, Knight Center Chair in Media and Religion, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Email: dianewin@usc.edu
Hajar Yazdiha
Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: hyazdiha@usc.edu