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NAMECONTACT

INFORMATIONBACKGROUND

INTELLECTUAL & TEACHINGINTERESTS

Sarah

Banet-Weiser

Annenberg School of

Communications(213) 740-3951sbanet@usc.edu

Ph.D., University

of California, SanDiego, 1995

Feminist theory and politics, media

studies, race and sexuality,contemporary American culture,nationalism and popular culture.

Juan DeLara

American Studies andEthnicity

(213)740-2426jdelara@usc.edu

Ph.D., University

of California,Berkeley, 2009

the political economy of urbanization,

how social movements and social

justice affect the production of space,urban political ecology, and the

geographies of race and representation

MacarenaGmez-Barris

Department of

Sociology(213) 740-3536gomezbar@usc.edu

Ph.D., University

of California,

Santa Cruz, 2004

Sociology of Culture; Latina/o andLatin American Studies; Film/Video;

Gender; Race Representations; Political

Violence and Its Aftermath;Memory/Trauma.

SarahGualtieri

Department of History

(213)740-1657gualtier@usc.edu

Ph.D., TheUniversity of

Chicago, 2000

Arab American history; Middle Easterndiasporas, Gender, Race and

Immigration.

ThomasGustafson

Department of English

(213) 740-2808thomasg@usc.edu

Ph.D., Stanford

University, 1986

Colonial and 19thcentury Americanliterature, American political discourse,

and literature of the American West.

JackHalberstam

Department ofAmerican Studies and

Ethnicity; Gender

Studies Program;Department of

Comparative Literature

(213) 821-1169halberst@usc.edu

Ph.D., U ofMinnesota, 1991

Gender Studies, Queer Studies,

Cultural Studies, Visual Culture.

Stanley J.Huey Jr.

Department ofPsychology

(213) 740-2203hueyjr@rcf.usc.edu

Ph.D., Universityof California, Los

Angeles, 1998

Culture and mental health,psychosocial problems in urban

settings, community-based

interventions.

LanitaJacobs

Department ofAnthropology

(213) 740-1900jacobshu@usc.edu

Ph.D., University

of California, Los

Angeles, 1999

African American womens discourse;

anthropology of the body; language &

identity in diasporas; language &gender.

ShermanJackson

School of Religion(213)740-0270sajackso@usc.edu

Ph.D., Universityof Pennsylvania,

1990

Islamic Studies, Muslims in America,Islamic Law, African American Religion,

Arabic Literature

KaraKeeling

School of Cinema-Television

(213) 740-3334

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.

mailto:sbanet@usc.edumailto:sbanet@usc.edumailto:jdelara@usc.edumailto:jdelara@usc.edumailto:gomezbar@usc.edumailto:gomezbar@usc.edumailto:gualtier@usc.edumailto:gualtier@usc.edumailto:thomasg@usc.edumailto:thomasg@usc.edumailto:halberst@usc.edumailto:halberst@usc.edumailto:hueyjr@rcf.usc.edumailto:hueyjr@rcf.usc.edumailto:jacobshu@usc.edumailto:jacobshu@usc.edumailto:sajackso@usc.edumailto:sajackso@usc.edumailto:sajackso@usc.edumailto:jacobshu@usc.edumailto:hueyjr@rcf.usc.edumailto:halberst@usc.edumailto:thomasg@usc.edumailto:gualtier@usc.edumailto:gomezbar@usc.edumailto:jdelara@usc.edumailto:sbanet@usc.edu

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DorinneKondo

Department of

Anthropology(213) 740-1900kondo@usc.edu

Ph.D., Harvard

University, 1982

Fashion; theatre, especially work by

artists of color in the U.S.; race issues.

Josh Kun

Annenberg School forCommunication

(213)821-4325jkun@usc.edu

Ph.D., UC

Berkeley, 1998

Popular Music of the Americas; US-

Mexico Border; Los Angeles; Cultures

of Globalization; Jewish-AmericanStudies.

LonKurashige

Department of History(213) 740-1657kurashig@usc.edu

Ph.D., University

of Wisconsin,Madison, 1994

Asian-American history; Japanese

Americans (especially in SouthernCalifornia); ethnic identity politics.

Maria ElenaMartinez

Department of History

(213)740-1675martinem@usc.edu

Ph.D. University

of Chicago, 2002

Colonial and Modern Latin American

History; Early Modern Spanish History;

Early Modern Religion and Race,Gender and Sexuality; Comparative

Colonial Situations; Mexican

Nationalism; Feminist Theory andMovements.

VietNguyen

Department of English

(213) 740-2808vnguyen@usc.edu

Ph.D., University

of California,Berkeley, 1997

Asian American and American

literature and film.

ManuelPastor

Department ofAmerican Studies and

Ethnicity

(213) 740-0050mpastor@ucsc.edu

Ph.D., University

of Massachusetts,1984

Urban poverty and regionaldevelopment, Latinos in the urban

U.S., macroeconomic stabilization in

Latin America; distribution, democracy,and growth in the developing world;

Cuban economic reform; Mexican

economic reform.

LauraPulido

Department ofAmerican Studies and

Ethnicity(213) 740-2426lpulido@usc.edu

Ph.D., Universityof California, LosAngeles, 1991

Race/ethnicity; social movements;political activism; Los Angeles.

ShanaRedmond

Department ofAmerican Studies and

Ethnicity

(213)740-5737sredmond@usc.edu

Ph.D., YaleUniversity, 2008

African Diasporic Politics, Culture, and

Social Movements, Working-Class

Culture, U.S. Popular Culture,Organizing Traditions/Cultures of

Resistance

David

Roman

Department of English

(213) 740-2808davidr@usc.edu

Ph.D., University

of Wisconsin,

Madison, 1991

Theatre and performance studies,

Latino studies, queer studies.

John CarlosRowe

Department of English(213)740-2808johnrowe@usc.edu

Ph.D., State

University of New

York, Buffalo,1972

American Studies; Critical Theory.

mailto:kondo@usc.edumailto:kondo@usc.edumailto:jkun@usc.edumailto:jkun@usc.edumailto:kurashig@usc.edumailto:kurashig@usc.edumailto:martinem@usc.edumailto:martinem@usc.edumailto:vnguyen@usc.edumailto:vnguyen@usc.edumailto:mpastor@ucsc.edumailto:mpastor@ucsc.edumailto:lpulido@usc.edumailto:lpulido@usc.edumailto:sredmond@usc.edumailto:sredmond@usc.edumailto:davidr@usc.edumailto:davidr@usc.edumailto:johnrowe@usc.edumailto:johnrowe@usc.edumailto:johnrowe@usc.edumailto:davidr@usc.edumailto:sredmond@usc.edumailto:lpulido@usc.edumailto:mpastor@ucsc.edumailto:vnguyen@usc.edumailto:martinem@usc.edumailto:kurashig@usc.edumailto:jkun@usc.edumailto:kondo@usc.edu

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George J.Snchez

Department of

American Studies andEthnicity; Department

of History

(213) 740-1657georges@usc.edu

Ph.D., StanfordUniversity, 1989

Chicano/a immigration; AmericanWest.

Nayan Shah

Department ofAmerican Studies and

Ethnicity(213)740-2426nayan.shah@usc.edu

Ph.D., University

of Chicago, 1995

Ethnic Studies and ComparativeStudies of Race and Racialization;

LGBT History and Queer Theory;

Migration Studies; Law and SocialChange; Governance, Democracy and

State Formation; Health, Inequality,

and Ethics; Social Movements andGlobalization; History of California and

Western North America, 1848-1960

FrancilleRusan

Wilson

Department ofAmerican Studies andEthnicity; Department

of History(213)740-1667

Ph.D., HarvardUniversity, 1988

Black labor movements, black socialscientists, and black women's history

during the Jim Crow era.

2013-14 AFFILIATE FACULTY LISTING

NAMECONTACT

INFORMATIONBACKGROUND

INTELLECTUAL & TEACHINGINTERESTS

Lois Banner

Department of

History,

(213) 740-1657lbanner@usc.edu

Ph.D., ColumbiaUniversity, 1970 Women, gender, cultural history.

Todd Boyd

School of CinemaCritical Studies

Program(213) 740-3334

tboyd@cinema.usc.edu

Ph.D., University ofIowa, 1990

African-American cinema and culture;music and popular culture; media and

society; sports and society; Americancinema and television; race, class and

gender in American cinema.

Meiling

Cheng

School of Theater

(213) 740-1286meilingc@usc.edu

Doctor of Fine Arts,

Yale University, 1993

Contemporary theatre; modern

drama, especially avant-garde

performances; performance art; bodyart; European avant-garde

movements.

David B.Cruz

Law School(213) 740-6473dcruz@law.usc.edu

J.D., New YorkUniversity, 1994

Law and sexuality; law and identity,constitutional law.

mailto:georges@usc.edumailto:georges@usc.edumailto:nayan.shah@usc.edumailto:nayan.shah@usc.edumailto:lbanner@usc.edumailto:lbanner@usc.edumailto:tboyd@cinema.usc.edumailto:tboyd@cinema.usc.edumailto:meilingc@usc.edumailto:meilingc@usc.edumailto:dcruz@law.usc.edumailto:dcruz@law.usc.edumailto:dcruz@law.usc.edumailto:meilingc@usc.edumailto:tboyd@cinema.usc.edumailto:lbanner@usc.edumailto:nayan.shah@usc.edumailto:georges@usc.edu

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WilliamDeverell

Department of

History(213)740-1676deverell@usc.edu

Ph.D., Princeton

University, 1989

History of California, Los Angeles, the

American West.

RobertoIgnacio Diaz

Department of

Spanish and

Portuguese(213) 740-1258

rdiaz@usc.edu

Ph.D., HarvardUniversity, 1991 19

th

and 20

th

centuries, narrativefiction and literary history.

Philip J.Ethington

Department ofHistory

(213) 740-1657philipje@usc.edu

Ph.D., Stanford

University, 1989

Urban, political, social and cultural

history of the US since 1850.

Taj Frazier

Annenberg Schoolfor Communication

(213)740-6595rfrazier@usc.edu

Ph.D., University of

California, Berkeley,

2009

Race and Representation in the

Media; Critical Race Theory; Historyof the African Diaspora; African

American Political Thought; Popular

Culture; Urban Social Movements;

Place, Space, and Diasporic Culture;20thCentury Chinese History

Ariela GrossLaw School

(213) 740-6473agross@law.usc.edu

J.D., StanfordUniversity, 1994;Ph.D., Stanford

University, 1996

American legal history; race, law, andculture in 19thcentury US; race,

gender, and the law; comparative

slavery studies; gender studies.

Larry Gross

Annenberg Schoolfor Communication

(213)740-3770lpgross@usc.edu

Ph.D., Columbia

University, 1968

Media and culture; Art, artists and

society; Sexual and other minorities.

Karen

Halttunen

Department ofHistory

(213) 740-1657halttune@usc.edu

Ph.D., Yale

University, 1979

19th Century Cultural and Intellectual

History of the US, Early American

History.

MichelleGordon

Department of

English

(213)740-2815mygordon@usc.edu

Ph.D., University ofWisconsin Madison,

2008

19thand 20thcentury AfricanAmerican literature, intellectual and

cultural history, freedom struggles,Black Womens Studies, migration

and diaspora studies: 20thcenturyCaribbean literature and popular

culture

Edwin Hill

Department ofFrench and Italian

(213)740-3700edwinhil@usc.edu

Ph.D., University ofCalifornia, Los

Angeles, 2007

Francophone poetry and music.

Representations of post/colonialdesire and romance. Exchanges in

Caribbean and black Atlantic identityformations and cultural discourses.

Cultural studies, performance studiesand musical discourses on gender

and race. Technology and

post/colonial discourse.

mailto:deverell@usc.edumailto:deverell@usc.edumailto:rdiaz@usc.edumailto:rdiaz@usc.edumailto:philipje@usc.edumailto:philipje@usc.edumailto:rfrazier@usc.edumailto:rfrazier@usc.edumailto:agross@law.usc.edumailto:agross@law.usc.edumailto:lpgross@usc.edumailto:lpgross@usc.edumailto:halttune@usc.edumailto:halttune@usc.edumailto:mygordon@usc.edumailto:mygordon@usc.edumailto:edwinhil@usc.edumailto:edwinhil@usc.edumailto:edwinhil@usc.edumailto:mygordon@usc.edumailto:halttune@usc.edumailto:lpgross@usc.edumailto:agross@law.usc.edumailto:rfrazier@usc.edumailto:philipje@usc.edumailto:rdiaz@usc.edumailto:deverell@usc.edu

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PierretteHondagneu-

Sotelo

Department of

Sociology(213) 740-3533

sotelo@usc.edu

Ph.D., University of

California, Berkeley,

1990

Immigration, gender; Mexican/Latino

transnational workers.

JanetHoskins

Department ofAnthropology

(213)740-1913jhoskins@usc.edu

Ph.D., HarvardUniversity, 1984

Visual Anthropology; Colonial and

Post-Colonial Theory; Transnational

Religion; Ritual Performance;Indigenous Representations of the

Past and of Time; Material Culture;

Gender; Exchange; Narrative andHealing

Velina HasuHouston

School of Theater

(213) 740-1286vhouston@usc.edu

MFA, University of

California, LosAngeles, 1981;

Ph.D., University of

Southern California,2000

Multiethnic identity and interracial

relationships; Asian-Americanfeminist dramatic literature; Japanese

studies; playwriting; screenwriting;cinema and race.

DanaJohnson

Department of

English(213)740-3735danajohn@usc.edu

M.F.A., IndianaUniversity, 2000

Ethnic-American literature, genderand race studies, and issues of class.

Elaine BellKaplan

Department of

Sociology(213) 740-3533ekaplan@usc.edu

Ph.D., University ofCalifornia, Berkeley,

1988

Race and ethnic relations; socialinequality; sociology of childhood;gender, qualitative methodology.

Sharoni Little

ClinicalManagement

Communication

Marshall School of

Business(213)821-1159slittle@marshall.usc.edu

Ph.D., Indiana

University,

Bloomington, 2005

Educational leadership Rhetoric and

Cultural Studies; Strategic

Communication Diversity and Equity

Conflict and Negotiation EffectiveOrganization Teams

Peter Mancall

Department of

History

(213) 821-2151mancall@usc.edu

Ph.D., History,

Harvard University1986

Early America, the Early modern

Atlantic world, and Early NativeAmerican Indian History.

SusanMcCabe

Department of

English

(213) 740-2808mccabe@usc.edu

Ph.D., University of

California, LosAngeles, 1990

Modern & contemporary Americanpoetry; American literature.

TaraMcPherson

School of Cinema

Critical Studies

Program(213) 740-3334tmcphers@usc.edu

Ph.D., University of

Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1996

Race, femininity and place; especially

in the US South; gender and newtechnologies; television, feminism

and media.

Oliver MayerSchool of Theatre(213)821-1545omayer@usc.edu

M.F.A., Columbia

University, 1989

Dramatic Writing (plays and screen

plays); contemporary Latino African

American and Asian American plays

mailto:sotelo@usc.edumailto:sotelo@usc.edumailto:jhoskins@usc.edumailto:jhoskins@usc.edumailto:vhouston@usc.edumailto:vhouston@usc.edumailto:danajohn@usc.edumailto:danajohn@usc.edumailto:ekaplan@usc.edumailto:ekaplan@usc.edumailto:slittle@marshall.usc.edumailto:slittle@marshall.usc.edumailto:mancall@usc.edumailto:mancall@usc.edumailto:mccabe@usc.edumailto:mccabe@usc.edumailto:tmcphers@usc.edumailto:tmcphers@usc.edumailto:omayer@usc.edumailto:omayer@usc.edumailto:omayer@usc.edumailto:tmcphers@usc.edumailto:mccabe@usc.edumailto:mancall@usc.edumailto:slittle@marshall.usc.edumailto:ekaplan@usc.edumailto:danajohn@usc.edumailto:vhouston@usc.edumailto:jhoskins@usc.edumailto:sotelo@usc.edu

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TaniaModleski

Department of

English(213) 740-2808modleski@usc.edu

Ph.D., Stanford

University, 1980

Women in film; women in popularculture; women in literature; feminist

studies; soap operas.

Michael B.Preston

Political Science(213) 740-6998mbprest@usc.edu

Ph.D., University ofCalifornia, Berkeley,

1974

Black politics;racial and ethnic politics;

urban politics.

AlisonRenteln

Department of

Political Science(213)740-3248arenteln@usc.edu

Ph.D., University of

California, Berkeley,1987

J.D., University of

Southern California,Law Center, 1991

International Law, Human Rights,Comparative Law, Constitutional Law,

Political and Legal Theory

Steven J.

Ross

Department of

History

(213) 740-1657sjross@usc.edu

Ph.D., Princeton

University, 1980

US social, labor, popular culture,

history.

Leland Saito

Department ofSociology

(213) 740-3533lsaito@usc.edu

Ph.D., University of

California, Los

Angeles, 1992

Race and ethnic relations; Asian

American Studies; urban politics;

community studies; urban sociology;qualitative research methods.

Ellen Seiter

School of Cinema-Television

(213) 740-2838eseiter@cinema.usc.edu

Ph.D., NorthwesternUniversity, 1981

Feminist media criticism, children and

television, multimedia and videoproduction and qualitative audience

research.

CarmenSilva-Corvalan

Department of

Spanish andPortuguese

(213) 740-1258csilva@usc.edu

Ph.D., University ofCalifornia, LosAngeles, 1979

Issues of language permeability insituations of societal bilingualism.

VeronicaTerriquez

Department ofSociology

(213)740-3533

veronica.terriquez@college.usc.edu

Ph.D., University of

California, Los

Angeles, 2009

Immigrant Incorporation Education;

Labor

KarenTongson

Department of

English

(213) 740-2817tongson@usc.edu

Ph.D., University ofCalifornia, Berkeley,

2003

Critical Theory, Film & Popular Culture,Gender Studies, Minority Discourse, 19th-

Century, Queer Studies.

Jody Vallejo

Department of

Sociology(213)740-5047vallejoj@usc.edu

Ph.D., University ofCalifornia, Irvine, 2008

Immigrations; Immigrant Incorporation;Immigrant Communities; Race/Ethnicity;The New Second Generation; Immigrant

Opportunity

DianaWilliams

Department of

History

(213)740-9325Diana.williams@usc.edu

Ph.D., HarvardUniversity, 2007

History of American Civilization, InteracialMarriage Laws

mailto:modleski@usc.edumailto:modleski@usc.edumailto:mbprest@usc.edumailto:mbprest@usc.edumailto:arenteln@usc.edumailto:arenteln@usc.edumailto:sjross@usc.edumailto:sjross@usc.edumailto:lsaito@usc.edumailto:lsaito@usc.edumailto:eseiter@cinema.usc.edumailto:eseiter@cinema.usc.edumailto:csilva@usc.edumailto:csilva@usc.edumailto:tongson@usc.edumailto:tongson@usc.edumailto:vallejoj@usc.edumailto:vallejoj@usc.edumailto:Diana.williams@usc.edumailto:Diana.williams@usc.edumailto:Diana.williams@usc.edumailto:vallejoj@usc.edumailto:tongson@usc.edumailto:csilva@usc.edumailto:eseiter@cinema.usc.edumailto:lsaito@usc.edumailto:sjross@usc.edumailto:arenteln@usc.edumailto:mbprest@usc.edumailto:modleski@usc.edu

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DianeWinston

Annenberg School

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

Ph.D., Princeton

University, 1996

American religious history, American

evangelicalism, urban American

religion, religion and media.

mailto:dianewin@usc.edumailto:dianewin@usc.edumailto:dianewin@usc.edu