USC Dornsife News

The Jimmy Gauntt Memorial Award Endowment honors its namesake while giving talented USC Dornsife students a leg up on their writing careers.

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.

Folklorists created a through line from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain to Halloween. But the Halloween we know today has more to do with the English, a 9th century pope and American consumerism.

Humanities faculty will engage the public in educational forums related to the milestone and help select some of the United States’ most important historical documents.

Discovered living in Griffith Park by USC Dornsife alumnus Miguel Ordeñana, P-22 roamed Los Angeles, inspiring a wildlife movement, artists and even musicians for a decade. Ordeñana explains P-22’s legacy and his special connection to the most famous mountain lion in America.

Local city councilman, businessman and USC Dornsife alumnus and his siblings establish Bruce and Frances Kaji Family Endowed East Asian Studies Center (EASC) Fund.

The prestigious awards will enable research and teaching in France, the Czech Republic and Spain’s Canary Islands.

Percival Everett, Maggie Nelson and Viet Thanh Nguyen were recognized by The New York Times for their literary achievements.

The Fourth of July 1776 marked a pivotal moment in the American Revolution, a revolt that kicked off a global “age of revolution” examined in a new book by USC Dornsife historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.