WELCOME
NEW FACU LT Y
2014
For many months, I have spoken about the strength of the faculty members who would soon join our team at USC Dornsife. I have told students, parents, alumni and other esteemed academics about this group of researchers and instructors whose passions and talents make them more than capable of changing the world. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you here officially and let you know that I have no more important mission as dean than to help you thrive. Your unparalleled ambitions, creative approaches to problem solving and genuine love of your fields are what draw our undergraduate and graduate students to USC Dornsife, and it is this synergistic relationship between you and your students that will continue to elevate the caliber of this college. By selecting the most successful and promising new faculty members, we are in turn investing in the level of excellence of the next generation of scholars — our students. I have no doubt that USC Dornsife will offer you an arena in which to transmit the knowledge you have already cultivated and to continue developing your research programs to extents that maybe even you had not imagined possible. Thanks to every member of our faculty, staff and administration who contributed to making this the institution in which you wish to further your careers. I am honored today to shift tense from future to present and welcome you as members of the USC Dornsife faculty. Steve Kay Dean, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Anna H. Bing Dean’s Chair
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USC Dornsife’s Newest Additions to the Trojan Family of Scholars 1. RICHARD ANTARAMIAN Turpanjian Early Career Chair in Contemporary Armenian Studies and Assistant Professor of History 2. CAROL ATKINSON Professor of the Practice of International Relations 3. DANIEL BENJAMIN Visiting Associate Professor (Research) of Economics 4. JAMES BOEDICKER Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Biological Sciences 5. VADIM CHEREZOV Visiting Associate Professor of Chemistry 6. ROBERT A. CHERNOFF Associate Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Associate Director of Clinical Training 7. CAVAN CONCANNON Assistant Professor of Religion 8. MORTEZA DEHGHANI Assistant Professor of Psychology 9. JOHN HAWTHORNE Professor of Philosophy 10. SAMUEL ANDREW HIRES Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences 11. ANNA JOURNEY Assistant Professor of English 12. BRENNO KENJI KANEYASU Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese 13. VSEVOLOD (SEVA) KATRITCH Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences 14. PETER KUHN Professor of Biological Sciences and Associate Director of The Bridge@USC 15. RONGDAO LAI Assistant Professor of Religion 16. NAOMI LEVINE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences and Earth Sciences
17. MORRIS LEVY Assistant Professor of Political Science 18. JESSICA M. MARGLIN Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Religion 19. AMY OGATA Professor of Art History 20. DAPHNA OYSERMAN Dean’s Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Psychology, Education, and Communication and Co-Director of the USC Dornsife Mind and Society Center 21. CAROLYN PHILLIPS Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences 22. OLEG V. PREZHDO Professor of Chemistry 23. HECTOR REYES Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Art History 24. JEFFREY RUSSELL Assistant Professor of Philosophy 25. NORBERT SCHWARZ Provost Professor of Psychology and Marketing and Founding Co-Director of the USC Dornsife Mind and Society Center 26. ROBERT M. SHRUM Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics and Professor of the Practice of Political Science 27. RAY STEVENS Provost Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry and Director of The Bridge@USC 28. ARTHUR A. STONE Professor of Psychology and Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Self-Report Science 29. JASON WEBB Associate Professor (Teaching) of Comparative Literature 30. JASON ZEVIN Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics