{"id":18832,"date":"2024-03-08T14:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T22:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/?p=18832"},"modified":"2024-03-12T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:21:40","slug":"new-faculty-join-usc-dornsife-spring-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/new-faculty-join-usc-dornsife-spring-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet spring\u2019s new USC Dornsife faculty members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_Top-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_Top-1920x1080.jpg 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_Top-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_Top-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  The latest faculty to join USC Dornsife represent a diversity of experiences across a spectrum of scholarly fields. (Photos: Courtesy of Tito Borner, Lu Chen, Noelle Held, Carolyn Seyler, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Mlondolozi Zondi.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Meet spring\u2019s new USC Dornsife faculty members<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Six new tenure-track faculty members bring expertise in subjects ranging from philosophy to biology and from comparative literature to religion.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a 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<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/tito-borner\/\">Tito Borner<\/a> | Assistant Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bisc\/\">Biological Sciences<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-18834 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryA-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryA-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryA-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryA.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Borner is Swiss-Italian, born and raised in Southern Switzerland. After completing his PhD in integrative molecular medicine at the University of Zurich, he moved to the United States to pursue postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\">The whole of his research career focuses on deepening our understanding of how nerve cells control food intake under both normal physiological conditions and when conditions go awry, such as when disease sets in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\">His overarching research goal is to investigate and identify the components and pathways within the central nervous system that mediate anorexia (loss of appetite), nausea, vomiting (emesis), and weight loss in pre-clinical models. This exploration focuses on understanding how these symptoms manifests after various diseases and, importantly, how they can be prevented, which special emphasis on chronic conditions such as cancer and diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/lu-chen-2\/\"><strong>Lu Chen<\/strong><\/a><strong> | Assistant Professor of <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/phil\/\"><strong>Philosophy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-18843 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryB-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryB-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryB-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryB-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryB.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Chen researches the metaphysics of physical geometry and of mathematical physics in general, with a special interest in building new foundations. For example, the spacetime manifold (a mathematical representation of the three spatial dimensions plus the fourth dimension of time) plays an essential role in physics but also comes with substantivalists\u2019 costs. (Substantivalists believe that spacetime and its parts are fundamental components of reality, as opposed to relationalists, who claim spacetime\u2019s existence is defined by the relationship between components.) Chen asks, \u201cCan we do without the manifold?\u201d and explores the approach that appeals to algebraic relations between physical fields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, models for scientific theories often have representational redundancies such as the use of coordinate systems, which obscure what is real. So Chen explores the possibility of a <a href=\"https:\/\/earlymathcounts.org\/logico-mathematical-knowledge\/\">logico-mathematical<\/a> framework at the foundation of science that dispenses with such redundancies. She also explores the mathematical concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/ncatlab.org\/nlab\/show\/univalent+foundations+for+mathematics\">univalent foundations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is currently working on a critique of \u201cinduced gravity,\u201d an idea in quantum physics that seeks to explain the properties of space-time curvature that give rise to gravity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chen received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wise.usc.edu\/faculty-members\/noelle-held\/\"><strong>Noelle Held<\/strong><\/a><strong> | Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-18844 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryC-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryC-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryC-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryC-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryC.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Held studies \u201cthe connectivity between life and the Earth\u201d by identifying how marine microbes interact with ocean biogeochemistry. Her group takes a holistic approach to studying the biological, chemical, physical and geological processes that influence life in the oceans. They use a tool called proteomics, the study of proteins and their functions and interactions, to study how marine microbes influence, and are influenced by, their surroundings. This enables them to understand the connections between the very small, like the life of an individual bacterium, and the very large, like global cycling of chemical elements, such as carbon and nitrogen, between land, sea and air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Held received her PhD in chemical oceanography and microbial biogeochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wise.usc.edu\/faculty-members\/caroline-seyler\/\"><strong>Caroline Seyler<\/strong><\/a><strong> | Assistant Professor of <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/earth\/\"><strong>Earth Sciences<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-18845 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryD-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryD-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryD-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryD-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryD-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryD.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Seyler received her PhD in Earth sciences from McGill University in 2021 and has since been a postdoc at the University of Texas and a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her research focuses on how rocks and minerals that make up tectonic plate boundaries undergo deformation during plate motions ranging from fast earthquakes to slow creep. She makes observations of rocks in the field and under the microscope, and then tries to recreate their microstructural features by simulating rock deformation in lab experiments. She is interested in how processes at the atomic scale can influence plate tectonics and seismic hazard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/jill-hicks-keeton\/\"><strong>Jill Hicks-Keeton<\/strong><\/a><strong> | Associate Professor of <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/religion\/\"><strong>Religion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-18846 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryE-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryE-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryE-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryE.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Hicks-Keeton joins USC after serving at the University of Oklahoma for eight years. She is a specialist in ancient Judaism and Christianity and has also published on how the Bible is mobilized in contemporary U.S. politics. She is the author of three books, an award-winning teacher, and a frequent commentator in national venues on the Bible in the public sphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hicks-Keeton received her PhD from Duke University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/mlondolozi-zondi\/\"><strong>Mlondolozi \u201cMlondi\u201d Zondi<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><strong>| Assistant Professor of <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/\"><strong>Comparative Literature<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-18847 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryF-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryF-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryF-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryF-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryF-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/New_Faculty_InStoryF.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Zondi is a PhD graduate in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. Zondi also held a Mellon Postdoctoral position at Wesleyan University (2020\u20132022) and a Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship at USC (2022\u20132023). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zondi studies Black performance and visual cultures to consider the relationship between figuration, death and political action. Some of this work is forthcoming or has been published in\u00a0<em>TDR: The Drama Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>ASAP Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Mortality<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Performance Philosophy<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Liquid Blackness<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  \n        \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-related-stories \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-related-stories\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Related Articles\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n                  <article>\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/exceptional-faculty-staff-recognized-2026\/\" \n                        class=\"\" \n      >15 exceptional USC Dornsife faculty and staff recognized for excellence<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/article>\n              <article>\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2025-communicator-of-the-year-award-honors-public-scholars\/\" \n                        class=\"\" \n      >USC Dornsife honors 2025 Communicators of the Year<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/article>\n              <article>\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/is-ai-really-writing-ancient-authors-would-have-said-no\/\" \n                        class=\"\" \n      >Is AI really \u2018writing\u2019? 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