{"id":4552,"date":"2023-07-18T19:51:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/?page_id=4552"},"modified":"2024-02-20T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:22:40","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/people\/alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n            \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n            <div class=\"header-container\">\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          ICW Celebrates Alumni\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Launching summer 2023, ICW seeks to connect with alumni to celebrate developments in your careers. We look forward to hearing from alumni via email at icw@dornsife.edu, where you can share your news and contact information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/genealogist-alumna-finds-family-history-roots\/\" \n         target=\"_blank\"                 class=\"\" \n      >Christina Copland<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Christina Copland received her PhD in history in 2018 and now works as a Genealogist Researcher at Ancestry.com. \u00a0There, she helps people find their roots and track down relatives, often all the way back to the 1700s. Her\u00a0dissertation, titled \u201cFaith, Finances and the Remaking of Southern Californian Fundamentalism, 1910 \u2013 1950,\u201d ties together Protestant fundamentalism, the urban history of Los Angeles, and the relationship between capitalism and religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/genealogist-alumna-finds-family-history-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Christina Copland\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2024\/02\/Christina_Copland_Profile_Top-1920x1080-1-768x432.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2024\/02\/Christina_Copland_Profile_Top-1920x1080-1-1280x720.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2024\/02\/Christina_Copland_Profile_Top-1920x1080-1-768x432.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Will Cowan\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Dr. Will Cowan accepted an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Cal Poly Pomona starting fall 2023.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mark99teao933\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Will<\/span> previously served as a postdoctoral researcher with ICW, focusing on the West on Fire Project. He studies the history of weather and water extremes in the North American West. His dissertation tells the environmental and social histories of the Big Winter of 1862 and presents a broad overview of atmospheric rivers, elemental meteorological forces in the Pacific Slope\u2019s past, present, and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-21-at-1.01.45-PM-768x432.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-21-at-1.01.45-PM-768x432.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Laura Dominguez\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Dr. Laura Dominguez begins a National Park Service Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in fall 2023. She\u2019ll be joining the New Perspectives in Transcontinental Railroad History team in the Intermountain Regional Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Laura is a historian of race, heritage, and placemaking in the American West. Her dissertation\u00a0examined\u00a0the making and unmaking of settler histories, memory sites, and heritage practices in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Los Angeles. She previously held positions at San Francisco Heritage and the Los Angeles Conservancy and currently serves on the boards of Latinos in Heritage Conservation and the California Preservation Foundation. From 2019-2021, she belonged to the Los Angeles Mayor\u2019s Office Civic Memory Working Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Laura is the recipient of numerous awards and\u00a0fellowships, including the USC Mellon Humanities &amp; the University of the Future Ph.D. Fellowship; Del Amo Doctoral Fellowship; and Bert Fireman and Janet Fireman Award from the Western History Association. Her work has appeared in the\u00a0<i>Western Historical Quarterly<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Journal of American History<\/i>,\u00a0<i>California History<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Lost L.A<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/LD-Canva-768x432.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/LD-Canva-1280x720.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/LD-Canva-768x432.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"parent":541,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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