USC Dornsife News

The City of Angels has long turned catastrophe into opportunity, learning lessons and rebuilding in the wake of tragedy.

Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories, giving victims a voice, writes Wolf Gruner of USC Dornsife’s Center for Advance Genocide Research.

Randy Hetrick ’87 is best known as the inventor of the TRX Suspension Trainer — equipment he developed while deployed on a military counter-piracy mission.

Alumna Cheryl Russell judges artistic swimming at this year’s Olympics, drawing from a lifetime of experience in the sport, including volunteering at the 1984 Games at USC.

Wolf Gruner, raised in communist East Germany, is transforming the study of mass violence at USC Dornsife’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, which celebrates its 10th year.

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.

Jaime Gomez, who spent six years in the U.S. Army and 16 years in the business world before becoming a first-generation college student, graduates with honors and an undergraduate degree in history.

Experts examine NATO’s history and whether the alliance should be strengthened, transformed or even retired.

Scholars explore the perennially popular playwright and the reasons behind his staying power.