USC Dornsife News

A human anatomy teacher for four decades, John Callaghan played a key role in USC’s commencement and convocation ceremonies.

USC Dornsife’s Leo Braudy helped pioneer the academic study of movies and popular culture.

Granville Alexander “Zandy” Moore helped establish the Center for Visual Anthropology and primatologist Jane Goodall’s professorship.

Nora Hamilton pioneered studies on U.S. Latin American communities, advocating for Central American immigrants and others who fell victim to unfair practices.

Remembering H. Edward Ransford, sociologist and pioneering race relations expert who led influential research on the 1965 Watts Riots and taught for four decades at USC.

The legendary scholar’s work in communications helped usher in the digital age.

A distinguished theoretical chemist and physicist whose pioneering work helped scientists find simplicity in chaos, Howard Taylor taught at USC Dornsife for 44 years.

A pioneer in the study of perinatal risk factors for crime and schizophrenia, Sarnoff Mednick demonstrated that crime has a genetic component.