USC Dornsife Welcomes New Faculty

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<p>The USC Dornsife School of Letters, Arts and Sciences welcomed 27 new faculty members this fall. The new Trojans come from all over the world in fields from geography to linguistics.</p>

<p>On the SC website are more detailed biographies, but here is a listing of some of the new professors and assistant professors. </p>

<p>Some New Professors: (In no order)</p>

<p>Dr. Ralph Wedgewood
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Cornell
Comes to SC from Oxford
Levehulme Research Fellow
Recipient of the Jean Hampton Prize</p>

<p>Dr. Gabriel Cruz
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. MIT
Comes to SC from Oxford
Author of numerous articles and co-editor of Absolute Generality</p>

<p>Dr. Kate Flint
Provost Professor of English
Ph.D. Oxford
Comes to SC from Rutgers
Author of numerous books on Victorian women
Fellow of the National Humanities Center and
Fellow of the Huntington Library</p>

<p>Dr. Jan Amend
Professor of Earth Sciences and Biological Sciences
Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley
Comes to SC from Washington Univ. at St. Louis
Hanse Fellowship
At SC he will be the associate director of C-DEBI.</p>

<p>Dr. Rhacel Parrenas
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley
Comes to SC from Brown University
Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford
Recently completed her fourth monograph</p>

<p>Dr. Sherman Jackson
Professor of Relgion and American Studies
Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania
Comes to SC from Univ. of Michigan
Recognized by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center</p>

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<p>Dr. G. Clinton Godart
Asst. Professor of History
Ph. D. Univ. of Chicago
Comes to SC from Univ. of Cambridge
Research concerns intellectual history of modern Japan</p>

<p>Dr. Aaron Lauda
Asst. Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D. Univ. of Cambridge
Comes to SC from Columbia University
Research concerns representation theory and categorification and utilizes intuitive diagrammatic calculus
Sloan Fellow</p>

<p>Dr. Megan Luke
Asst. Professor of Art History
Ph.D. Harvard University
Comes to SC from University of Chicago
Research focuses on Germany in the 20th century</p>

<p>Dr. Christoph Haselvandter
Asst. Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Ph.D. Physics Imperial College London
Comes to SC from Cal Tech
Research on the organization of cell membranes
Received the Erwin Schrodinger Fellowship
Armstrong Medal and Prize</p>

<p>Dr. Favien Pinaud
Asst. Professor of Biological Sciences
Ph.D. UCLA
Comes to SC from Ecole Normale Superieure
Principal investigator of the Single Molecule Biophotonics Group
Marie Curie Research Fellowship
Biochemistry Dept. Best Ph.D Dissertation Award from UCLA</p>

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<p>Well done!</p>

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<p>Why didn’t you post all of the new faculty?</p>

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<p>gOld3n</p>

<pre><code>It would be a pleasure to post the other names. I did not think there would be that much interest in reading about all 27 individuals. Check here later for the rest of the list.
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<p>gOld3n,</p>

<p>Here are more names for you…</p>

<p>Dr. Juan De Lara
Asst. Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity
Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley
USC Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow</p>

<p>Research interests are economic development; border economies; Los Angeles
Fellow of the Institute for Social Change
Fellow of the Graduate Opportunity Program</p>

<p>Dr. Dion Dickman
Asst. Professor of Biological Sciences
Ph.D. Harvard University
Comes to SC from Univ. of California, San Francisco</p>

<p>Research interests are the function and plasticity of synapses
K99/Roo Pathway to Independence Award
Jane Coffi Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship</p>

<p>Dr. Lee Epstein
Provost Professor of Law and Political Science
Ph.D. Emory University
Comes to SC from Northwestern University</p>

<p>Research focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional law
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the American Academy of Politcal and Social Sciences
Recipient of 12 grants from NSF
Co-editor of Journal of Law Economics & Organization
Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science</p>

<p>Dr. Henrike Moll
Asst. Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Univ. of Leipzig
Comes to SC from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology</p>

<p>Research on the development of social cognition in infancy and young childhood
Recipient of the 2011 Young Mind & Brain Prize
Member of the German Young Academy
Dilthey Fellowship
Her doctoral studies were funded by the German National Merit Foundation</p>

<p>More coming tomorrow…</p>

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<p>Thanks! I was interested in knowing the new additions to this great school. :slight_smile: Our hired faculty this year does not seem to have resumes on par with USC’s. Very respectable.</p>

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<p>There are new engineering faculty as well, although not as many as Dornsife. I will post those soon.</p>

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<p>New Dornsife Faculty Continued…</p>

<p>Dr. Duncan Williams
Associate Professor of Religion
Ph.D. Harvard University
Comes to SC from Univ. of California at Berkeley
He is a social historian of Japanese religions with focus on Buddhism and modernity.
Authored books on the Japanese internment in WWII
Received commendation from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
He will head the USC Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at Dornsife</p>

<p>Dr. Chao Zhang
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D. Princeton University
Comes to SC from Univ. of California, San Francisco
Research interest focuses on the development and application of chemical approaches in the study of biological systems</p>

<p>Dr. Ian Ehrenreich
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Ph. D. North Carolina State University
Comes to SC from Princeton University
Studies the genetic basis of trait variation among individuals
NIH Kirschstein Postdoctoral National Research Service Award
National Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship</p>

<p>Dr. Brian Bernards
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Ph. D. Univ. of California at Los Angeles
Comes to SC from National University of Singapore
His research focus is on cultural production in several languages
Received grants from Fulbright-Hays, Pacific Rim Research Program and the UCLA Asia Institute
Co-editor of Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader</p>

<p>Dr. David Treuer
Professor of English
Ph. D. Univ. of Michigan
Comes to SC from Univ. of Minnesota
His specialty is creative writing and Native American literature
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Bush Foundation Fellowship
Pushcart Prize
Author of The Translation of Dr. Apelles: A Love Story-named best book of the year by The Washington Post</p>

<p>Dr. Yilmaz Kocer
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. New York University
Comes to SC from Princeton
Main research interests are in micro-economic theory, behavioral economics and game theory</p>

<p>Dr. Olivia Harrison
Assistant Professor of French and Italian
Ph. D. Columbia University
Comes to SC from Linfield College
Her research interests include 20th century Norh African and Middle Eastern Literature
Grand Marnier Fellowship
Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship in Arabic
Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University</p>

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<p>Couldn’t be more thankful of the Dornsife’s truly transformative donation.</p>

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<p>It is very interesting to see where USC has had success in their recruiting efforts:</p>

<p>Not surprisingly, California was very successful with 4 from top UC schools and 1 from Caltech.</p>

<p>University of California, Berkeley
2 University of California, San Francisco
University of California, Los Angeles
California Institute of Technology</p>

<p>USC also had great success internationally, particularly at Oxbridge.</p>

<p>2 Oxford University / University of Cambridge
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology</p>

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<p>Modern Man,
An earlier post mentioned the addition of Lord John Eatwell, president of Queen’s College, Cambridge, to the faculty. Also, noted in the article was the addition of Lady Susan Digby, the acting director of music at Queen’s College, to the Thornton faculty. Lady Digby is a Churchill Fellow anda Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a member of the Society of Musicians.</p>

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<p>Impressive! So glad about the focus on faculty/teaching!!</p>

<p>Fight On!</p>

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<p>Bumped …</p>

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<p>Bumped for new freshmen…</p>

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<p>Dornsife has added three new faculty for the fall semester of 2012. It was a list, so I do not have information about their background at this time.</p>

<p>Dr. Wayne Sandholtz
Professor of International Relations
Ph.D. Univ. of CA at Berkeley
Comes to USC from UCI</p>

<p>Dr. Ben Graham
Assistant Professor of Political Economy
Ph.D. Univ. of CA at San Diego</p>

<p>Dr. Andrew Coe
Assistant Professor of International Relations
Ph.D. Harvard University</p>

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<p>Dr. Andrew Bacon
Asst. Professor of Logic and Metaphysics
Ph. D. Oxford University</p>

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<p>See the new post today, May 20, regarding the new dean at the Dornsife School.</p>