USC Dornsife News

Art historian Vanessa Schwartz of the Visual Studies Research Institute explains why these images are iconic. [2¼ min read]

History has no laugh track, so how do we measure our changing conceptions of happiness through the ages? [10 min read]

Portraits of Holocaust survivors appear alongside interactive testimonies in ‘Facing Survival | David Kassan,’ a USC Fisher Museum of Art and USC Shoah Foundation collaboration open through Dec. 7. [3 min read]

On Nov. 10, 1969, children in the United States tuned into the first episode of a program that would change the way generations would learn math, spelling and how to be good human beings. [3 ½ min read]

USC Dornsife’s Kelsey Rubin-Detlev argues that 18th-century Russian ruler Catherine the Great offers an example of how modern leaders could use wit, reason and science to advance a nation. [6½ min read]

USC Dornsife’s Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, explores the felines that have pawed, posed and preened their way through art around the world.

USC Dornsife’s alumni magazine took high honors in three categories at the 61st annual Southern California Journalism Awards. The magazine as well as USC Dornsife Office of Communication news writing also earned awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. [2 min read]

Whether you’re a Stark, a Lannister or a Targaryen, nothing might be more beneficial in landing the Iron Throne than a mastery of the letters, arts and sciences. USC Dornsife experts explain how. [5 min read]

Wolf Gruner, founding director of the Center for Advanced Genocide Research at USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education, began his quest to build a Holocaust library as soon as he arrived at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences a decade ago. [5¼ min read]