Message to USC Faculty
From: Michael W. Quick, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; Elizabeth A. Graddy, Executive Vice Provost
May 15, 2019
Please join us in congratulating our 2018-2019 awardees of the Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (ASHSS) program. The Office of the Provost awards ASHSS funding to support selected USC full-time faculty in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences in their scholarship. The ASHSS program includes three distinct funding channels targeting faculty at strategic points during their academic careers. The ASHSS early sabbatical/school-paid leave program affords our most productive faculty the time to produce high-caliber scholarly work; the ASHSS research and creative grant awards up to $25,000 to recently promoted faculty members seeking to make important scholarly or creative contributions in these fields; and the ASHSS grant writing mentorship program provides an opportunity for a faculty member to work one-on-one with a colleague with appropriate expertise on their fellowship or grant application. For more information on eligibility, please see http://faculty.usc.edu/scholarship/ashss/.
Awardees are selected through a competitive application process, and their selection is a testament to the excellent quality of their proposals. We look forward to seeing the products of this year’s awards, and we strongly encourage those of you who are eligible to consider applying next year.
ASHSS Sabbatical:
- Joseph Boone, Gender Studies Professor in Media and Gender and Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—From Luminous Trash to Dirty Ecology: Art, Literature, and Culture in an Age of Conspicuous Consumption
- Christina Dunbar-Hester, Associate Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism—Sensing the Voices of Others: Knowledge, Difference, and Planetary Cataclysm
- Sarah Gualtieri, Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, History, and Middle East Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—Silence, Ethics, and Unconventional Archives
- Trudi Sandmeier, Associate Professor in the Practice of Architecture, School of Architecture—Exploring the Nexus of Digital Humanities and Heritage Conservation – Case Studies
ASHSS Research and Creative Grants:
- Cavan Concannon, Associate Professor of Religion, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—Networking Early Christianity
- Lisa Leeman, Professor of Film and Television Production, School of Cinematic Arts—TransFormed: GABI Then and Now
- Megan Luke, Associate Professor of Art History, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—Reproduction and the Object of History
- Ann Owens, Associate Professor of Sociology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—Place-Based Opportunity: Housing Models to Reduce Inequality in Children’s Contexts
ASHSS Grant Writing Mentorship:
- Susanna Berger, Assistant Professor of Art History, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—Visual Expertise and the Aesthetics of Deception in Early Modern Italy
- Maya Maskarinec, Assistant Professor of History, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences— Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
We are grateful to the members of this year’s ASHSS review committee, who reviewed the applications and recommended applicants for funding:
- Laura Baker, Professor of Psychology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Lisa Bitel, Dean’s Professor of Religion and Professor of Religion and History, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Michael Fink, Georges Melies Endowed Chair in Visual Effects, The Kortschak Family Endowed Division Chair in Film and Television Production, School of Cinematic Arts
- Lawrence Green, Professor of English, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Julian Gutierrez-Albilla, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Florence Everline Professor of Sociology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Amelia Jones, Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design, Roski School of Art and Design
- Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- David Sloane, Professor of Public Policy, Price School of Public Policy
- Pamela Starr, Associate Professor (Teaching) of International Relations, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Cc: Wanda Austin
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