2013-14 CORE FACULTY LISTING

NAME
Sarah BanetWeiser

CONTACT INFORMATION
Annenberg School of Communications (213) 740-3951 sbanet@usc.edu

BACKGROUND
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1995

INTELLECTUAL & TEACHING INTERESTS

Juan De Lara

Macarena GmezBarris

Feminist theory and politics, media studies, race and sexuality, contemporary American culture, nationalism and popular culture. the political economy of urbanization, American Studies and Ph.D., University how social movements and social Ethnicity of California, justice affect the production of space, (213)740-2426 Berkeley, 2009 urban political ecology, and the jdelara@usc.edu geographies of race and representation Sociology of Culture; Latina/o and Department of Ph.D., University Latin American Studies; Film/Video; Sociology of California, Gender; Race Representations; Political (213) 740-3536 Santa Cruz, 2004 Violence and Its Aftermath; gomezbar@usc.edu Memory/Trauma. Department of History (213)740-1657 gualtier@usc.edu Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2000 Arab American history; Middle Eastern diasporas, Gender, Race and Immigration.

Sarah Gualtieri Thomas Gustafson

Colonial and 19th century American Department of English Ph.D., Stanford literature, American political discourse, (213) 740-2808 University, 1986 thomasg@usc.edu and literature of the American West. Department of American Studies and Ethnicity; Gender Jack Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Ph.D., U of Studies Program; Halberstam Minnesota, 1991 Cultural Studies, Visual Culture. Department of Comparative Literature (213) 821-1169 halberst@usc.edu Stanley J. Huey Jr. Department of Psychology (213) 740-2203 hueyjr@rcf.usc.edu Department of Anthropology (213) 740-1900 jacobshu@usc.edu School of Religion (213)740-0270 sajackso@usc.edu School of CinemaTelevision (213) 740-3334 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1998 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999 Culture and mental health, psychosocial problems in urban settings, community-based interventions. African American womens discourse; anthropology of the body; language & identity in diasporas; language & gender.

Lanita Jacobs

Sherman Jackson

Ph.D., University Islamic Studies, Muslims in America, of Pennsylvania, Islamic Law, African American Religion, 1990 Arabic Literature Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2001 Media Studies (Film Theory, Black Film, Television Studies, New Media), Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Women's Studies, Black Studies, Queer Theory.

Kara Keeling

Dorinne Kondo

Department of Anthropology (213) 740-1900 kondo@usc.edu Annenberg School for Communication (213)821-4325 jkun@usc.edu

Ph.D., Harvard Fashion; theatre, especially work by University, 1982 artists of color in the U.S.; race issues. Popular Music of the Americas; USMexico Border; Los Angeles; Cultures of Globalization; Jewish-American Studies. Asian-American history; Japanese Americans (especially in Southern California); ethnic identity politics.

Josh Kun

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1998

Lon Kurashige

Department of History Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, (213) 740-1657 kurashig@usc.edu Madison, 1994

Colonial and Modern Latin American History; Early Modern Spanish History; Early Modern Religion and Race, Department of History Maria Elena Ph.D. University Gender and Sexuality; Comparative (213)740-1675 Martinez of Chicago, 2002 martinem@usc.edu Colonial Situations; Mexican Nationalism; Feminist Theory and Movements. Department of English Ph.D., University of California, (213) 740-2808 vnguyen@usc.edu Berkeley, 1997

Viet Nguyen

Asian American and American literature and film.

Manuel Pastor

Laura Pulido

Urban poverty and regional development, Latinos in the urban Department of American Studies and Ph.D., University U.S., macroeconomic stabilization in of Massachusetts, Latin America; distribution, democracy, Ethnicity 1984 and growth in the developing world; (213) 740-0050 mpastor@ucsc.edu Cuban economic reform; Mexican economic reform. Department of American Studies and Ph.D., University Race/ethnicity; social movements; of California, Los Ethnicity political activism; Los Angeles. Angeles, 1991 (213) 740-2426 lpulido@usc.edu Department of American Studies and Ethnicity (213)740-5737 sredmond@usc.edu Ph.D., Yale University, 2008 African Diasporic Politics, Culture, and Social Movements, Working-Class Culture, U.S. Popular Culture, Organizing Traditions/Cultures of Resistance Theatre and performance studies, Latino studies, queer studies. American Studies; Critical Theory.

Shana Redmond

Department of English Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, (213) 740-2808 davidr@usc.edu Madison, 1991 Ph.D., State John Carlos Department of English University of New (213)740-2808 Rowe York, Buffalo, johnrowe@usc.edu 1972 David Roman

George J. Snchez

Department of American Studies and Ethnicity; Department of History (213) 740-1657 georges@usc.edu

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989

Chicano/a immigration; American West.

Ethnic Studies and Comparative Studies of Race and Racialization; Department of LGBT History and Queer Theory; American Studies and Migration Studies; Law and Social Ph.D., University Ethnicity Nayan Shah Change; Governance, Democracy and of Chicago, 1995 (213)740-2426 State Formation; Health, Inequality, nayan.shah@usc.edu and Ethics; Social Movements and Globalization; History of California and Western North America, 1848-1960 Department of Francille American Studies and Black labor movements, black social Ph.D., Harvard Rusan Ethnicity; Department scientists, and black women's history University, 1988 Wilson of History during the Jim Crow era. (213)740-1667

2013-14 AFFILIATE FACULTY LISTING

NAME
Lois Banner

CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of History, (213) 740-1657 lbanner@usc.edu School of Cinema Critical Studies Program (213) 740-3334 tboyd@cinema.usc.edu

BACKGROUND
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970

INTELLECTUAL & TEACHING INTERESTS

Women, gender, cultural history.

Todd Boyd

African-American cinema and culture; music and popular culture; media and Ph.D., University of society; sports and society; American Iowa, 1990 cinema and television; race, class and gender in American cinema.

Meiling Cheng

School of Theater (213) 740-1286 meilingc@usc.edu Law School (213) 740-6473 dcruz@law.usc.edu

Contemporary theatre; modern Doctor of Fine Arts, drama, especially avant-garde Yale University, 1993 performances; performance art; body art; European avant-garde movements. J.D., New York University, 1994 Law and sexuality; law and identity, constitutional law.

David B. Cruz

William Deverell

Department of History (213)740-1676 deverell@usc.edu Department of Spanish and Portuguese (213) 740-1258 rdiaz@usc.edu Department of History (213) 740-1657 philipje@usc.edu Annenberg School for Communication (213)740-6595 rfrazier@usc.edu

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1989

History of California, Los Angeles, the American West.

Roberto Ignacio Diaz

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991

19th and 20th centuries, narrative fiction and literary history.

Philip J. Ethington

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989

Urban, political, social and cultural history of the US since 1850.

Taj Frazier

Ariela Gross

Law School (213) 740-6473 agross@law.usc.edu Annenberg School for Communication (213)740-3770 lpgross@usc.edu Department of History (213) 740-1657 halttune@usc.edu

Race and Representation in the Media; Critical Race Theory; History Ph.D., University of of the African Diaspora; African California, Berkeley, American Political Thought; Popular 2009 Culture; Urban Social Movements; Place, Space, and Diasporic Culture; 20th Century Chinese History J.D., Stanford American legal history; race, law, and University, 1994; culture in 19th century US; race, Ph.D., Stanford gender, and the law; comparative University, 1996 slavery studies; gender studies. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1968 Media and culture; Art, artists and society; Sexual and other minorities. 19th Century Cultural and Intellectual History of the US, Early American History.

Larry Gross

Karen Halttunen

Ph.D., Yale University, 1979

Michelle Gordon

Edwin Hill

19th and 20th century African American literature, intellectual and Department of Ph.D., University of cultural history, freedom struggles, English Wisconsin Madison, Black Womens Studies, migration (213)740-2815 mygordon@usc.edu 2008 and diaspora studies: 20th century Caribbean literature and popular culture Francophone poetry and music. Representations of post/colonial desire and romance. Exchanges in Department of Ph.D., University of Caribbean and black Atlantic identity French and Italian California, Los formations and cultural discourses. (213)740-3700 edwinhil@usc.edu Angeles, 2007 Cultural studies, performance studies and musical discourses on gender and race. Technology and post/colonial discourse.

Pierrette HondagneuSotelo

Department of Sociology (213) 740-3533 sotelo@usc.edu Department of Anthropology (213)740-1913 jhoskins@usc.edu

Ph.D., University of Immigration, gender; Mexican/Latino California, Berkeley, transnational workers. 1990 Visual Anthropology; Colonial and Post-Colonial Theory; Transnational Religion; Ritual Performance; Indigenous Representations of the Past and of Time; Material Culture; Gender; Exchange; Narrative and Healing

Janet Hoskins

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1984

Velina Hasu Houston

School of Theater (213) 740-1286 vhouston@usc.edu Department of English (213)740-3735 danajohn@usc.edu Department of Sociology (213) 740-3533 ekaplan@usc.edu

MFA, University of Multiethnic identity and interracial California, Los relationships; Asian-American Angeles, 1981; feminist dramatic literature; Japanese Ph.D., University of studies; playwriting; screenwriting; Southern California, cinema and race. 2000 M.F.A., Indiana University, 2000 Ethnic-American literature, gender and race studies, and issues of class.

Dana Johnson

Elaine Bell Kaplan

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1988

Race and ethnic relations; social inequality; sociology of childhood; gender, qualitative methodology. Educational leadership Rhetoric and Cultural Studies; Strategic Communication Diversity and Equity Conflict and Negotiation Effective Organization Teams Early America, the Early modern Atlantic world, and Early Native American Indian History. Modern & contemporary American poetry; American literature. Race, femininity and place; especially in the US South; gender and new technologies; television, feminism and media. Dramatic Writing (plays and screen plays); contemporary Latino African American and Asian American plays

Clinical Management Communication Sharoni Little Marshall School of Business (213)821-1159 slittle@marshall.usc.edu Peter Mancall Department of History (213) 821-2151 mancall@usc.edu Department of English (213) 740-2808 mccabe@usc.edu School of Cinema Critical Studies Program (213) 740-3334 tmcphers@usc.edu School of Theatre (213)821-1545 omayer@usc.edu

Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, 2005

Ph.D., History, Harvard University 1986 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1990 Ph.D., University of WisconsinMilwaukee, 1996 M.F.A., Columbia University, 1989

Susan McCabe

Tara McPherson

Oliver Mayer

Tania Modleski

Department of English (213) 740-2808 modleski@usc.edu Political Science (213) 740-6998 mbprest@usc.edu

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1980

Women in film; women in popular culture; women in literature; feminist studies; soap operas. Black politics; racial and ethnic politics; urban politics.

Michael B. Preston

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974

Alison Renteln

Department of Political Science (213)740-3248 arenteln@usc.edu Department of History (213) 740-1657 sjross@usc.edu Department of Sociology (213) 740-3533 lsaito@usc.edu School of CinemaTelevision (213) 740-2838 eseiter@cinema.usc.edu Department of Spanish and Portuguese (213) 740-1258 csilva@usc.edu Department of Sociology (213)740-3533 veronica.terriquez @college.usc.edu Department of English (213) 740-2817 tongson@usc.edu Department of Sociology (213)740-5047 vallejoj@usc.edu Department of History (213)740-9325 Diana.williams@usc.edu

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, International Law, Human Rights, 1987 Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, J.D., University of Political and Legal Theory Southern California, Law Center, 1991 Ph.D., Princeton University, 1980 US social, labor, popular culture, history.

Steven J. Ross

Leland Saito

Ellen Seiter

Race and ethnic relations; Asian American Studies; urban politics; community studies; urban sociology; qualitative research methods. Feminist media criticism, children and Ph.D., Northwestern television, multimedia and video University, 1981 production and qualitative audience research. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1979 Issues of language permeability in situations of societal bilingualism.

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1992

Carmen SilvaCorvalan

Veronica Terriquez

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2009

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003

Immigrant Incorporation Education; Labor

Karen Tongson

Critical Theory, Film & Popular Culture, Gender Studies, Minority Discourse, 19thCentury, Queer Studies.

Jody Vallejo

Immigrations; Immigrant Incorporation; Ph.D., University of Immigrant Communities; Race/Ethnicity; California, Irvine, 2008 The New Second Generation; Immigrant Opportunity Ph.D., Harvard University, 2007 History of American Civilization, Interacial Marriage Laws

Diana Williams

Diane Winston

Annenberg School of Communication (213) 821-5388 dianewin@usc.edu

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996

American religious history, American evangelicalism, urban American religion, religion and media.