About Dornsife Fellows in General Education
Each year USC Dornsife admits five fellows, who are appointed for two-year terms during which they teach five General Education seminars per academic year. They are expected to participate in the scholarly life of the Dornsife Ph.D. Academy, the host department, and the university. GE Fellows completed their doctoral degree from USC Dornsife within the last five years.
Katherine Hammitt
Comparative Literature: French and ItalianPast Dornsife Fellows in General Education
These past Dornsife Fellows in General Education served either for one or two years.
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Dr. Albright is currently an Associate Professor of Classics at Louisiana State University. His profile may be viewed here.
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Reed Blaylock holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from USC, where his work examined speech and vocal music (mostly beatboxing) using real-time MRI videos of the vocal tract collected by the interdisciplinary USC Speech Production and Articulation Knowledge group. As a GE Fellow, he taught two courses. “The Science of Singing” explored how singers and vocalists of various vocal styles (such as Western opera, heavy metal, overtone singing, and beatboxing) use their vocal tracts to create music. “Seeing Speech” led students through practical, messy, hands-on speech research while learning some fundamentals of sociolinguistics.
Dr. Blaylock is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Chapman University where he studies American Sign Language. Visit Dr. Blaylock’s website or contact him at reed.blaylock@gmail.com.
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Dr. Brown’s profile may be viewed here.
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Dr. Camisa Morale is a lecturer of Slavic Languages and Literature at Stanford University. Her profile may be viewed here.
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Li-Ping Chen is an interdisciplinary scholar of Transnational Asian Humanities and Comparative Literature from Taiwan. Her research focuses on colonial legacy, nativist movements, and diaspora history in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts. She teaches literature, cinema, critical theory, intellectual history, popular culture, and Chinese language and mentors both undergraduates and graduate students. Li-Ping is also a podcast host in the East Asian Studies channel of New Books Network.
Now serving as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at USC. Visit her website or contact her at lipingch@usc.edu.
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Dr. Dame’s profile may be viewed here.
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Dr. Gonzalez currently teaches Latin at Pacifica Christian High School in Orange County, California. His profile may be viewed here.
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Dr. Keller’s bio is forthcoming.
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Dr. Minas’ profile may be viewed here.
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Elisa Shimada is a family sociologist whose research focuses on romantic relationships and intersectional inequality. Her core passion is bringing fun, relevance, and care into her teaching and mentorship. During her time at USC, Elisa taught classes on “The Family in a Changing Society,” “The Sociology of Love,” and “Intersectional Sociology.” She has added “Introduction to Sociology” and “The Sociology of Youth and Childhood” to her teaching repertoire at Pomona College, and is starting a new research project about the wedding industry.
Dr. Shimada is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Pomona College. View Dr. Shimada’s profile or contact her at elisashimada@yahoo.com.
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Dr. Theis’ profile may be viewed here.
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Dr. Vogel’s profile may be viewed here.
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Isabel Wade is an art historian who works across photography, architectural history, and urban studies. In particular, she researches and writes about how photography—and its circulation across diverse print media—shaped social, racial, and political experiences of cities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her courses are interdisciplinary and collaborative, challenging students to find their unique interests within visual culture and the humanities and to apply lessons learned broadly to their lives.
View Dr. Wade’s website or contact her at isabelwade25@gmail.com.
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Dr. Wirthwein’s profile may be viewed here.
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Ka Lee Wong has been teaching and working on research in Sinophone studies. Currently she is working on a book project about the transnational production and circulation of Cantonese media between China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. By tracing the sonic connections of Cantonese media among these locations, she investigates how “sound” reveals and/or converges with Sinophone politics and diasporic identities.
After completing her Dornsife Fellowship in General Education, Ka Lee Wong served as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies, before beginning an Assistant Professor position in Fall 2024 at NYU Shanghai in the area of Global China Studies. View Dr. Wong’s website or contact her at wong.k@nyu.edu.