{"id":5987,"date":"2016-06-17T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/faculty-reflect-upon-their-fathers-influence-on-their-academic-careers\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T17:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:55:11","slug":"faculty-reflect-upon-their-fathers-influence-on-their-academic-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/faculty-reflect-upon-their-fathers-influence-on-their-academic-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty reflect upon their fathers\u2019 influence on their academic careers"},"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\/2023\/04\/story-2367-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-2367-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Faculty reflect upon their fathers\u2019 influence on their academic careers\"\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  Each year, the nation celebrates Father\u2019s Day with family outings and get-togethers, home-cooked meals and restaurant dinners, heartfelt cards and an abundance of gifts.\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        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Here, seven USC Dornsife faculty from a wide range of disciplines reflect on their fathers\u2019 influences on their lives and how their dads helped shape and inspire their academic careers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>William Deverell, professor of history, chair of history and director of the USC\u2013Huntington Institute on California and the West, writes about his father, William F. Deverell Sr.<\/h4>\n<figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Deverell.-226x350-2367.jpg\" alt=\"Two men standing next to each other in ski suits on skis. White snow is behind them.\" width=\"225\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Deverell and his father, William F. Deverell Sr., skiing on the slopes of Vail, Colorado, in the early 1980s. (Photo courtesy of William Deverell.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy father, for whom I am named, is a retired orthopedic surgeon who spent the first 20 years of his medical career as an officer in the United States Air Force.\u00a0Growing up a military brat, I&#8217;ve learned since boyhood, is a little strange and outside the borders of more conventional, civilian life.\u00a0But\u00a0my sister and I knew nothing else, so it seemed entirely normal to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in houses on Air Force bases in Japan, California, and Colorado. They shared a certain \u201cbase housing\u201d exterior sameness, even drabness.\u00a0On the inside, they shared books.\u00a0Packed bookcases: medical texts, of course, (<em>The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery <\/em>by the dozens), travel books, biographies, Great American novels, and, always, history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father has always been drawn to history, and he is deeply well read.\u00a0His books called to me as a kid, and my constant borrowing of them no doubt shaped my life and my thinking for the better.\u00a0I went off to college thinking I wanted to be a surgeon; I left college knowing I wanted to be a history professor. In no small way, that journey is motivated by the imprint of a father\u2019s curiosity on a son. We share more than a name, and I\u2019m ever grateful for all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Lanita Jacobs, associate professor of anthropology and American studies and ethnicity, celebrates her stepfather, Jackie L. Stewart Sr., a retired machinist and church pastor.<\/h4>\n<figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Lanita-Dad-Mom-225x350-2367.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stand in front of taller man with glasses.\" width=\"225\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lanita Jacobs with her stepfather, Jackie L. Stewart Sr., and her mother, Gwen Stewart. (Photo courtesy of Lanita Jacobs.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was in the sixth grade when my dad entered my life. He\u2019d recently found God and fell hard for my mom.\u00a0I eyed him warily; I didn\u2019t know what to make of this recently converted preacher and single-father of five.\u00a0Soon, his and my family merged and I inherited four sisters, a brother and a new dad \u2014and two more sisters as our family steadily grew. We were a black \u2018Brady Bunch\u2019 with no \u2018Alice\u2019; I sulked to the point of disrespect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, I grew to love him. I knew it when, five months into blended familyhood, I dreamt my new dad had died. I remember waking up in a panic and searching to find and hug him. He said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry about it Nita. I\u2019m still here.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad has held me many times since.\u00a0When my marriage failed and my world unraveled, my dad said two things that righted me: \u2018I understand you baby\u2019 and \u2018Forgive yourself because God does.\u2019\u00a0He saw me in my vulnerability (priceless), loved me, and inspires my classes on the fraught subject of black love and respectability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad didn\u2019t graduate high school. In the past five years, he\u2019s earned his B.A. and later M.A. at a seminary.\u00a0I didn\u2019t make it to his most recent graduation for reasons I can\u2019t defend.\u00a0When I apologized for my absence, he replied, \u2018That\u2019s okay.\u00a0I know you love me.\u2019\u00a0And I do.\u00a0I do.\u00a0I do.\u00a0I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Robert Shrum, Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics and professor of the practice of political science, pays tribute to his father, Clarence Shrum.<\/h4>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Shrum-450x290-2367.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman sit on the beach, their son laying on their laps.\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Shrum with his parents, Clarence and Cecilia Shrum, enjoying the California winter sunshine at Venice Beach shortly after the family moved West in 1951. (Photo courtesy of Robert Shrum.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy parents were part of the great westward migration of the 1950s. They left behind a place where my father\u2019s family had lived for nearly two centuries and brought my 6-year-old sister Barbara and me \u2014 I was 8\u00a0\u2014 to the better life of the new America that was California, with its booming growth and perpetual sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there was another reason for the move: No one in my father\u2019s family had ever gone to college and he was determined that Barbara and I would. My mother taught me to read before kindergarten. My father worried that we wouldn\u2019t have a chance to go to the best schools from a small coal town in Western Pennsylvania. So he drove us across the continent in his 1948 Chevy in search of education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe and my mom always found the money for the books I yearned to buy \u2014 and then for my tuition at Loyola High School. They put off buying a house until I graduated from Georgetown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father\u00a0\u2014 and the wife he adored \u2014 made it their life\u2019s work to lift our lives. My dad told me he loved me, but for him that love was not a just a feeling; it was a mission. And he was quietly proud in his 90s of what his children had done \u2014 and though he never said it, what he had done for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI often look at a favorite photo, taken on Venice beach soon after we arrived in Culver City. It tells the truth of our relationship far better than any words.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Megan Luke, assistant professor of art history, on her father, Richard Luke.<\/h4>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Luke-450x290-2367.jpg\" alt=\"Man and younger woman sit at table. Woman is smiling and looking at camera. Man is looking at her.\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Luke with her father, the architect Richard Luke. (Photo courtesy of Megan Luke.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy dad is my first and most avid reader. He reads everything I write (he even read my doctoral dissertation!), and he always understands just what I am trying to do with any given text. My father is a sculptor, a builder and an architect, so he has a high tolerance for art history, but he\u2019s also a passionate self-taught reader of literature and philosophy \u2014 and poetry is what he likes reading best. At key moments in my studies, he would introduce me to a writer or an artist and I, in turn, would take up the challenge to write about them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce, when I was in high school, I asked him to read a paper I had written for English class on one of his favorite poets, William Bronk, and he read it as he would a text by any \u2018real\u2019 writer. It was the first time my words had received such a demanding audience, and I vividly remember that being the moment when I realized the responsibility that comes with writing \u2014 a responsibility to write well and with conviction. To this day, I always begin writing with the aim that the result would be something he would want to read, and the best thing is, he always does.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>James Heft, Alton M. Brooks Professor of Religion, remembers his father, Berl Ramsey Heft, a farmer and warehouse manager.<\/h4>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Heft-450x290-2367.jpg\" alt=\"Man seated in chair with boy, wearing a hat, on his lap.\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Heft, age 3, with his Protestant father, Berl Ramsey Heft. (Photo courtesy of James Heft.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy father was a Protestant; I was raised Catholic, the faith of my mother. For the first 36 years of his life, my dad was a farmer; I\u2019ve spent my life in cities. My father never went past the eighth grade; I got a Ph.D. My dad didn\u2019t go to church with me and the rest of the family that often; we went every Sunday and more. My father was 5-foot-8 inches tall; I am 6-foot-5. So, how did my father influence my career as an academic and a Catholic priest?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough my father was not Catholic, he was a loving and good man. As a child, I never doubted that he would go to heaven, and as a second-grader in a Catholic school in Cleveland, Ohio, I stood up and spoke out against a teacher who said that only Catholics would go to heaven. Though he had little formal education, he was bright, very bright, and verbally quick. He told great stories. He supported the private education of my four siblings and me. I guess you could say that for much of his life he was deeply spiritual then, but not so religious \u2014 ahead of his time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe influenced me profoundly even though we might seem to have been very different. Towards the end of his life, shortly after I had told my family what I wanted to do with my life, he became a Catholic. Perhaps I influenced him a little, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Laura Baker, professor of psychology, remembers her father, John P. Baker.<\/h4>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Baker-450x290-2367.jpg\" alt=\"Woman wearing glasses leans on the shoulder of an older man.\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A more recent picture of Laura Baker with her father. (Photo courtesy of Laura Baker.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs long as I can remember, my focus in life has been on figuring out how things work \u2014 including people\u2019s behavior.\u00a0I have to attribute this, at least in part, to my father, who was a civil engineer and a handyman extraordinaire.\u00a0Early memories include having Dad help me with math homework and visiting his civil engineering office, where I was fascinated by the rooms full of computers, whirring tape decks \u2014 and yes, punch card machines \u2014 that filled an entire air-conditioned floor of the high-rise building where he worked.\u00a0There were plenty of opportunities to figure things out on my own, growing up in a house with seven other siblings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father also remodeled his home with his own hands and came to Los Angeles to help me and my husband restore a little Victorian house near USC.\u00a0As my own research in behavioral genetics shows, Dad\u2019s influence was undoubtedly a combination of genes and environment. Regardless of the etiology, I have my father to thank for my problem-solving skills, and for a determination to get things done and never give up until I am satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Alison Dundes Renteln, professor of political science, anthropology, public policy and law, pays tribute to her late father, Alan Dundes, a professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/h4>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Dad-and-Alison-450x290-2367.jpg\" alt=\"Man in patterned top sits next to woman, she is holding his shoulder.\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alison Dundes Renteln with her father, Alan Dundes, with whom she coedited a book, Folk Law:\u00a0 Essays on the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta (Garland Publishing, 1994). Photo courtesy of Alison Dundes Renteln.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy father was a professor for more than 40 years. From him I learned the great joy of exploring libraries, conducting interdisciplinary research, and mentoring students. I also saw the benefits of belonging to a vibrant intellectual community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important, he often said, to pursue a career one enjoys. He certainly loved his work. A Freudian Folklorist, he believed that the psychoanalytic approach, making the unconscious conscious, could enable us to change our ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the data my father analyzed was difficult, dangerous, and unpleasant. But he was strongly opposed to censorship and considered no topic taboo. When I accompanied him to the former Soviet Union in the early 1970s, and he tried to give out copies of a paper analyzing anti-Soviet jokes, his colleagues were afraid to accept it. This experience sparked my interest in political freedom and human rights, topics on which I continue to focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father shared his research with influential people to try to contribute to social change. He corresponded, for example, with President Bill Clinton about military policy banning gays and lesbians. From my father, I learned the importance of identifying ethnocentric attitudes, so we can be more compassionate and accepting of people who come from diverse backgrounds. My own research on the legal protection of cultural traditions reflects a commitment to this value. Inspired by my father, I encourage students to reconsider their tacit assumptions, appreciate different points of view, and empower them to use their research to make the world a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>UPDATE (5\/3\/24): Fr. 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