Academic Director of Intercollegiate Media Studies, Pitzer College
PhD, Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, 2011
Dissertation:
“The Sculptural Screen: Spectatorship, Exhibition, and Hollywood in Contemporary Film/Video Art”
Associate Director of the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life ; Lecturer- Art History, USC
PhD, Art History, USC Dornsife, 2020
Dissertation: “The Bespoke Book: Experimental Printing in Early Modern Italy”
Assistant Professor, Rhetoric, Politics and Culture, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2018
Assistant Professor of Art History, Hamilton College
PhD, Art History, USC Dornsife, 2016
Dissertation: “The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Art of Collaboration in Postwar Photojournalism”
Assistant Director of College Programs, University of Chicago
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2020
Dissertation: “According to Legend: Aging Female Stars and Hollywood Nostalgia, 1967–1994”
Assistant Professor, English, Mount Saint Mary’s University
Dissertation: “Contemporary European Cinema in a Transnational Perspective: Aftereffects of 1989”
Associate Professor, Art History, University of Minnesota Morris
PhD, Art History, 2011
Dissertation: “Kunstwissenschaft and the ‘Primitive’: Excursions in the History of Art History, 1879–1914”
Emma Ben Ayoun
Postdoctoral Fellow, USC
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2022
Dissertation: “Sick Cinema: Illness, Disability, and the Moving Image”
Author
Dissertation: “American (Proto)fascism, 1914-1933”
Associate Professor of History and Director, Public History & Museum Studies, Misericordia University
PhD, American History, 2013
Dissertation: “Branding Trust: Advertising, Trademarks, and the Problem of Legitimacy in the United States, 1876—1920″
Instructor of Film, TV, and Media Studies, Loyola Marymount University.
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2021
Dissertation: “Virtual Documentary: the Virtual Real and Its Rhetorical Legitimations”
Author
PhD, History, 2013
Dissertation:”Spinning Wheels: Cosmopolitanism, Mobility, and Media in Monaco, 1855-1956”
Curator of Photography at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College
PhD, Art History, USC Dornsife, 2020
Dissertation: “Typophoto and the Reinvention of Photography in Weimar Germany”
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows, Classics, USC
PhD, Classics, 2021
Assistant Professor of American Culture and Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity, 2016
Dissertation: “Cinematic Activism: Film Festivals and the Exhibition of Palestinian Cultural Politics in the United States”
Samantha Carrick
Teacher, High Tech High International, San Diego
PhD, English
Dissertation: “‘Each Body Has Its Art’: The Unruly Bodies of American Modernism”
Assistant Professor, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University in Ottawa
PhD, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2019
Dissertation: “Choreographing the Sinophone Body: Hong Kong Martial Arts Media and Embodied Languages”
Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2015
Dissertation: “Instructing Unruly Empires: Colonial Educational Film in British Malaya”
PhD, Art History, 2024
Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Scripps College
PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity, 2015
Dissertation: “Queer Visibilities: Race, Gender, and Viral Ways of Seeing”
Senior Director of Programs at the USC Shoah Foundation
PhD, History, 2012
Dissertation: “Photography as History: Collecting, Narrating, and Preserving Paris, 1870-1970”
Grace Converse
Karsh Curatorial Fellow, Decorative Arts and Design, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
PhD, Art History, 2023
Dissertation: “Making Belief: Art, Theosophy, and the Creative Production of Truth, 1875–1945″
Jelena Culibrk
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2022
Dissertation: “Screening the Invisible Hand: State-Sponsored Documentary Media, (Neo)Liberalism, and the Riddle of Politics, 1918-1980”
Maître de conférences / Associate Professor
PhD, History, 2020
Dissertation: “Wired Images: Visual Telecommunications, News Agencies, and the Invention of the World Picture, 1917-1955”
Harrison Diskin
PhD, History, 2022
Dissertation: “Making Manhattan: Sovereignty, Material Culture, and the Politics of Place, 1614-1664”
Project Specialist for USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World
PhD, Art History, 2019
Dissertation: “Collecting the Renaissance: The Samuel H. Kress Collection of Italian Art”
Nicholas Earheart
PhD, English
Director of the Ahmanson Lab, USC Sidney Harmon Academy for Polymathic Study
PhD, History
Associate Professor of History, University of Idaho
PhD, History, 2013
Dissertation: “Exposing Humanity: Slavery, Antislavery, and Early Photography in America, 1839-1865″
Visiting Lecturer in Visual Culture and Museums Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology
PhD, Art History, 2022
Dissertation: “Total Integration: Design, Business, and Society in the United States, 1935–1985”
Associate Professor, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
PhD, Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, 2011
Assistant Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
PhD, American Studies & Ethnicity, 2022
Dissertation: “The Racial Interface: Asian Racialization and the Dreams of the Digital”
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Delaware
PhD, Art History, 2011
Dissertation: “Artist as Reporter: The PM News Picture, 1940-1948”
Assistant Professor, English, University of California Santa Barbara
PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity
Dylan Howell
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2023
Dissertation: “The Revisionist West: Placing the Postwar American Avant-garde”
Professor of Visual Culture, Caltech
Ennuri Jo
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2023
Dissertation: “Aqueous Image: cinema and Rhetoric of Water at the End of the World”
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Philadelphia Museum of Art
PhD, Art History, 2021
Dissertation: “Sheila Hicks: Weaving to the World”
Postdoctoral Scholar – Teaching Fellow, University of Southern California, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
PhD, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2024
Dissertation: “Horrific Environments: Confronting the Nonhuman in Korean and Japanese Ecomedia”
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota
PhD, Art History, 2008
Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
Director of Graduate Studies, Wayne State University
PhD, Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, 2011
Disseration: “And the Dead Shall Walk the Earth: Zombies and the Politics of Death”
Researcher with the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2020
Dissertation: “When A Handshake Meant Something: Lawyers, Deal Making, and the Emergence of New Hollywood,” awarded the Society for Cinema and Media Studies prize for Best Dissertation
Anne LaGatta
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Kenyon College
PhD, Art History, 2024
Dissertation: “‘The Most Beautiful and Enduring Images’: Visual Culture in the Principate of Tiberius (14-37 CE)”
Associate Professor of History and Theory of Design, Pratt Institute
PhD, Art History, 2012
Dissertation:
“Before Art Nouveau: The Invention, Commercialization, and Display of the Modern Interior in Nineteenth-Century France”
Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
PhD, Art History, 2021
Dissertation: “Collaboration in Color: Master Printers, Dealer-Publishers, and Avant-Garde Lithography in Late Nineteenth-Century France”
Frances Lazare
PhD, Art History
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside
PhD, Art History, 2011
Dissertation:
“Tropical Modernisms: Art and architecture in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s”
Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University
PhD, Comparative Literature, 2014
Professor of English
PhD, Creative Writing and Literature
Curator at Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
PhD, History, 2011
Dissertation:
“The Public Eye: Celebrity and Photojournalism in the Making of the British Tabloids, 1904-1938”
Associate Professor, Communication, Media & Learning Technologies Design, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology, Teachers College, Columbia University
PhD, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, 2015
Dissertation: “Crowdsourced Art: Activating Creative Participation in Online Spaces”
Myles Little
PhD, Art History, 2024
Dissertation: “Blackout: Photography, Darkness, and New York City, 1965-1985”
Zachary Mann
Associate Director, Levan Institute for the Humanities
Program Coordinator, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
PhD, English, 2022
Student Services Advisor II, USC School of Cinematic Arts
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2016
Dissertation: “Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System, 1915-1933”
COO Wild Blue Studios
PhD, Art History
Dissertation: “Mediums for the Masses: Stained Glass and Murals in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Scholar, Michigan Society of Fellows, History of Art, University of Michigan
PhD, Art History, 2017
Dissertation: “To Turn in the Sun: Iridescent Thinking in the Early Modern Spanish World”
Dissertation:
“A New Eros: Sexuality in Women’s Art before the Feminist Art Movement”
Associate Professor, Art History, Chaffey College
PhD, Art History
Dissertation: “Tom Marioni and the Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco (1978–1979)”
Assistant Professor, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2020
Instructor of Film Studies, Connecticut College
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies
Department of Comparative Literature & English, The American University of Paris
PhD, Art History
Dissertation: “Actuarial Imaginaries of Art and Empire, 1824–1914”
Assistant Director, Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College in collaboration with the Clark Art Institute
PhD Art History, 2023
Dissertation: “’A Sort of Picture Gallery’: Encounters with Print in Antebellum US Society”
Assistant Professor in Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga
Instructor, English, UC San Diego Extended Studies
PhD, English
Dissertation: “Crossing Over: Comedy and Lesbian Identity in American Popular Culture”
Program Officer, ACLS
PhD, Comparative Media and Culture, 2020
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Seoul National University
PhD, 2012
Dissertation: “Art into Everyday Life: Department Stores as Purveyors of Culture in Modern Japan”
Christopher Persaud
PhD, Communication, 2024
Dissertation: “Examining the Digital Labor and Platform Governance of Queer Sexual Content Creators and Artists”
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Liverpool
PhD, Urban Planning, 2019
Cord-Heinrich Plinke
PhD, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Dissertation: “The Plastic Body: Abstraction, Alienation, and Affinity in Translation”
Associate Dean in the Graduate School at the University of Southern California and an adjunct professor in USC’s Price School of Public Policy
PhD, Policy, Planning and Development, Price School of Public Policy, 2010
Dissertation: “Rhetoric of representation: Planning Los Angeles’ civic space, 1909—2009”
Director, Housatonic Museum of Art
PhD, Art History, 2014
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies & Director of Employability (School of Literature and Languages), University of Surrey
PhD, Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, 2009
Dissertation: “Animating Documentary”
Director of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Social Justice, Georgetown University
PhD, Media Studies
Lilly Fellow, Valparaiso University
PhD, English, 2020
Steven Weiss Samols
Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London’s Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
PhD, History, 2023
Dissertation: “Capturing Difference, Making History: the Photobook as a Jewish Artifact”
Assistant Curator at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2019
Learning and Development Specialist, USC Shoah Foundation
PhD, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, 2018
Kirsten Seuffert
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies
PhD, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2024
Dissertation: “Adjusting Images: Women’s Bodies and Embodied Experience in Cinema and Visual Culture in Japan, 1974–1989”
Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Musem
PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity, 2016
Dissertation: “Speaking Out of Turn: Race, Gender, and Direct Address in American Art Museums”
Author
PhD, Literature and Creative Writing, 2021
Dissertation: “Petroleum in Five Acts: Slow Violence Along the Mississippi River and the Niger River”
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PhD, Critical Studies, Cinema & Television
Dora Vanette
PhD, Art History
Professor of Art History and Director of Gender Studies, West Texas A&M University
PhD, Art History, 2010
Dissertation:
“Surveying the Field: The Popular Origins of Art History in Nineteenth-‐Century Britain and France”
Dornsife Fellow in General Education
PhD, Art History, 2023
Dissertation: “Exposing Urban Form: Commercial Architectural Photography in Los Angeles, 1938-1981”
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
PhD, Art History, 2014
Dissertation: “Modernism’s Other Tableau: Tapestry in the Twentieth Century.”
Associate Professor and Director of Screen Studies, Eugene Lang College, the New School
PhD, Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, 2012
Dissertation: “Medusan Optics: Film, Feminism, and the Forbidden Image”
Executive Director, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2019
Dissertation: “#Holocaust: Rethinking the Relationship Between Spaces of Memory and Places of Commemoration In The Digital Age”
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty; Associate Professor of Art History, University of Houston
PhD, Art History, 2008
Dissertation: “A Vernacular Vanguard: Surrealism and the Making of American Art History 1936-1986”
Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of New Hampshire
PhD, Communication
