This holiday season, discover how USC Dornsife scholars view trees. From the landscape of forests in the American West to sustainability to trees designed to study algebraic functions, our academic endeavors connect to a sturdy trunk of curiosity and explore issues across a broad canopy of disciplines.
A larger than life figure, sinologist Eugene (Gene) Cooper of anthropology inspired generations of students with his fierce intellect and outspoken personality during a career at USC Dornsife that spanned 35 years.
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.”
Alumna Kaitlin Solimine has dedicated her academic career to studying China. Now she is making academic research appealing to a general audience through an online magazine she co-founded.
Undergraduates in Erin Moore’s Problems Without Passports (PWP) course become anthropologists when they travel to Brazil to study how another culture experiences the healing process.
USC Dornsife professors across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences discuss different perspectives on the selfie, Oxford Dictionaries "Word of the Year."
USC Dornsife archaeology students and faculty help recover the remains of famed racehorse Native Diver who was buried in a monument at Hollywood Park racetrack.
Former employee of Wolfgang Puck, USC Dornsife’s Joseph Hawkins says his experiences with the elite led him to the anthropological work he is doing now.
USC Dornsife students win top prizes at the 15th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work. In humanities, Vellore Adithi placed first for research.
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