Welcome New Faculty
USC Dornsife welcomes 17 new faculty members for the 2015-16 academic year. Hailing from universities around the world, their experience and academic research span a wide range of disciplines.
The new faculty members join departments including English, spatial sciences, chemistry, art history, biological sciences, mathematics, earth sciences, international relations, Slavic languages and literatures, Spanish and Portuguese, physics and astronomy, classics, sociology, and comparative literature.
Their research interests range from understanding the molecular underpinnings of human disease through “click chemistry” to race and politics in 19th- and early 20th-century American art and visual culture.
“By selecting the most successful and promising new faculty members, we are in turn investing in the level of excellence of the next generation of scholars — our students,” said USC Dornsife Dean Steve Kay. “We seek out new faculty members who are open to working together to solve society’s most formidable challenges.”
The group includes a writer known for her poetic innovations and commitment to social justice; a U.S. Army Colonel who is deputy head of the department of geography and environmental engineering at the United States Military Academy in West Point; an internationally renowned British novelist, essayist and critic; a researcher who studies the isotope geochemistry of trace-metals in order to understand how these crucial micronutrients support life in the modern ocean; and a sociologist exploring how literacy skills influence individual’s own health and that of their children.
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