University of Southern California
USC Dornsife: College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

ERI affiliated faculty 2021

ERI affiliated faculty members are listed below in alphabetical order by last name. 

Shafiqa Ahmadi

Associate Professor of Clinical Education, USC Rossier School of Education

Co-Director for the Center for Education, Identity, and Social Justice

Email: sahmadi@usc.edu

Maria Aranda

Associate Professor,  USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

Executive Director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging

Email: aranda@usc.edu

Hector Amaya

Professor of Communication, USC Annenberg

Email: hectoram@usc.edu

Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati

Professor of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine

Associate Dean for Community Initiatives
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 Center for Social Transformation, and the Dorothy E. Everett Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship Chair, University of California, Santa Cruz

E-mail: cbenner@ucsc.edu

Chris Benner bio

 

Ricky Bluthenthal

Professor of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine
Associate Dean for Social Justice, Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

Marlon Boarnet

Professor of Public Policy and Chair of the Urban Planning & Spatial Analysis Department, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy

Email: boarnet@usc.edu

 

Laurie Brand

Professor of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Email: brand@usc.edu

J. Mijin Cha

Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College

Email: mcha@oxy.edu

Mijin Cha bio

Darnell Cole

Associate Professor of Education and Program Chair, USC Rossier School of Education

Email: darnelc@usc.edu

Santina Contreras

Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning at Ohio State University

Email: contreras.78@osu.edu

Michael Cousineau

Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine

Email: cousinea@usc.edu

Lara Cushing

Assistant Professor of Health Education, San Francisco State University

Email: lcushing@sfsu.edu

Lara Cushing bio

Morteza Dehghani

Associate Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Email: mdehghan@usc.edu

Juan De Lara

Associate Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

E-mail: jdelara@usc.edu 

Juan De Lara bio

Adrian De Leon

Assistant Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Email: adriand@usc.edu

Deisy Del Real

Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Email: deisydel@usc.edu

William Deverell

Professor of History, Political Science and Spatial Sciences

E-mail: deverell@usc.edu

Christina Dunbar-Hester

Associate Professor of Media, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Email: dunbarhe@usc.edu

Sam Erman

Professor of Law

E-mail: serman@law.usc.edu

Philip Ethington

Professor of History, Political Science and Spatial Sciences

E-mail: philipje@usc.edu

Robeson Taj Frazier

Associate Professor of Communication
Director of Doctoral Studies
Director of the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg (IDEA)

Email: rfrazier@usc.edu

Niels W. Frenzen

Sidney M. and Audrey M. Irmas Endowed Clinical Professor of Law and Director, USC Immigration Clinic

E-mail:nfrenzen@law.usc.edu

Brittany Friedman

Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

E-mail: 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

E-mail:gtg@usc.edu

Ariela Gross

John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

E-mail: agross@law.usc.edu

Sarah Gualtieri

Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, History and Middle East Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

E-mail: gualtier@usc.edu

Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro

Dean's Professor of Gender Studies and Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

E-mail: ahancock@usc.edu

Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Florence Everline Professor 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

E-mail: hueyjr@usc.edu

Jane Junn

Professor of Political Science, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Email: junn@usc.edu

Annette M. Kim

Associate Professor Director of Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB)

E-mail: annettek@usc.edu

Josh Kun

Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication, USC Annenberg and American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Dornsife

Email: jkun@usc.edu

Lon Kurashige

Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Email: kurashig@usc.edu

Morris Levy

Assistant Professor of Political Science, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Email: morrisl@usc.edu

Lihua Liu

Associate Professor Of Clinical Preventive Medicine
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 Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religion, Law and History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Email: marglin@usc.edu

Martha Matsuoka

Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College

Email: matsuoka@oxy.edu

Martha Matsuoka bio

Tatiana Melguizo

Professor, USC Rossier School of Education

Email: melguizo@usc.edu

Natalia Molina

Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

E-mail: natalia.molina@usc.edu

Rachel Morello-Frosch

Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley

Email: rmf@berkeley.edu

Rachel Morello-Frosch bio

Alaina Morgan

Assistant Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences


E-mail: 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: 

Dowell Myers

Professor of Urban Planning, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy

Director, Population Dynamics Research Group

Email: 

 

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Professor, 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

E-mail: vnguyen@usc.edu

Ann Owens

Associate Professor of Sociology and Management, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

E-mail: annowens@usc.edu

Gary Dean Painter

Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Policy, USC Sol Price School for Public Policy

Director, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation Director, Homelessness Policy Research Institute

Email: 

Rhacel Salazar Parrenas

Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

E-mail: parrenas@usc.edu

Parveen Parmar

Chief of the Division of Global Emergency Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine

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

E-mail: perlrose@usc.edu

Christian Philips

Assistant Professor of Political Science, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

E-mail: christian.d.phillips@usc.edu

Jean Lantz Reisz

Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic
Adjunct Assistant Professor, USC Gould School of Law

Email: jreisz@law.usc.edu

Elda Maria Roman

Associate Professor of English, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

E-mail: emr@usc.edu

Rachel Rosner

Research Associate

E-mail:rachrosner@aol.com 

Rachel Rosner bio

 

Robert Rueda

Stephen B. Crocker Professor in Education, USC Rossier School of Education

Email: rueda@usc.edu

Emily Ryo

Professor of Law and Sociology, USC Gould School of Law

Email: eryo@law.usc.edu

James Sadd

Professor of Environmental Science, Occidental College

E-mail: jsadd@oxy.edu
James Sadd bio

 

Leland Saito

Associate 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 Democracy and Diversity

Email:georges@usc.edu

Dan Schrage

Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife

E-mail: dschrage@usc.edu

Josh Seim

Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Email: jseim@usc.edu

Laura Isabel Serna

Associate Professor of History and Cinema and Media Studies

Email: lserna@cinema.usc.edu
Website: http://www.lauraisabelserna.com

Nayan Shah

Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, 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 

Associate Director, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation

Director, Tomás Rivera Policy Institute

Email: suro@usc.edu

Veronica Terriquez

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz

Email: terriquez@ucsc.edu

Veronica Terriquez bio 

April D. Thames

Associate Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Director of USC Social Neuroscience in Health Psychology Lab 

Email: thames@usc.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 Communication, 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

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