USC Dornsife News

The new USC Dornsife Preceptor Program gives doctoral graduates in the humanities and social sciences an opportunity to teach their own courses and strengthen their portfolios for the job market.

A new book by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal of history and spatial sciences explores how the efforts of American sailors to establish their nationality created the first racially inclusive model of United States citizenship.

Doctoral student Sari Siegel has been awarded a leading fellowship for her pioneering research into the largely unexplored history of Jewish prisoner-physicians in Nazi camps during World War II.

Nancy Lutkehaus of anthropology and political science is exploring the cultural, social and political significance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s pioneering 1969 decision to collect and display what was then called “primitive art.”

Art history graduate student Nadya Bair examines how the founding photojournalists at Magnum Photos transitioned out of World War II and collectively expanded the role of news photography in the postwar world.

Kate Flint of art history and English is researching flash photography’s past — through Weegee, Jacob Riis and lesser known figures — to shed light on how it revolutionized the way we view and record our visual world.

The highly acclaimed, award-winning poet will teach literature and creative writing at USC Dornsife.

The rugged beauty of Big Sur. The innovative spirit of Silicon Valley. The hotbed of creativity that is the Hollywood dream machine. The Golden State is endowed with an iconic, almost mythical stature. Unlocking the mystique is The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Poet and English alumna Barbara Duffey, winner of the 2014 National Endowment for the Arts’ Creative Writing Fellowship, explores the intersection of literature and science.