USC Dornsife News

USC Dornsife’s Joseph Boone, Macarena Gómez-Barris, María-Elena Martínez and James McHugh receive prestigious humanities fellowships.

USC is a leading sponsor and co-organizer of the 2014 National Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), to be held in Los Angeles in October.

A new book by Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity Shana Redmond examines the black anthem's impact on racial and political identifications across the African diaspora.

American studies and ethnicity doctoral student Priscilla Leiva has earned a coveted Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. She is studying the complex relationship between sports stadiums and their surrounding communities.

USC Dornsife lecturer and alumnus Anthony Sparks (Ph.D. ’12) scripted Walt Disney EPCOT’s first African American art and history exhibit, Re-Discovering America: Family Treasures from the Kinsey Collection.

A graduate from the inaugural class of USC Dornsife’s American studies and ethnicity doctoral program, Laura Barraclough ’06 has accepted a tenure-track faculty appointment at Yale University.

USC Dornsife takes a leadership role in finding solutions to human trafficking, beginning with an international conference that drew 200 participants.

For Macarena Gómez-Barris, associate professor of sociology and American studies and ethnicity, memories weave a complex chronicle of culture and power in South America.

Laura Pulido’s new book A People’s Guide to Los Angeles takes readers to 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender and sexuality have occurred.