Please join us in congratulating our 2019-2020 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 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:
- Emily Anderson, Professor of English, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—Shadow Work: Invisible Labor and the Writing Life
- Brent Blair, Professor of Theatre Practice in Voice and Movement, School of Dramatic Arts—Liberation Arts & Community Engagement
- Erin Graff Zivin, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—Transmedial Exposure: Formal Experimentation Across Media
- Amy Murphy, Associate Professor, School of Architecture—A Long Way to Nowhere: Los Angeles and its Cinematic Representation 1960-1980
- David Tomkins, Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—Practicing Assemblage: Multimodality in the Advanced Writing Classroom
ASHSS Research and Creative Grants:
- David Albertson, Associate Professor of Religion, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—The Female Mystic as Radical Philosopher
- Brian Bernards, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—Inter-Asian Cinema: Migrant Labor, Popular Culture, Tourism
- Dorinne Kondo, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—Vulnerable Theory: Power, Affect, Performance
- Mary Sweeney, Dino & Martha De Laurentiis Endowed Professor, School of Cinematic Arts—Art and Science Podcast
ASHSS Grant Writing Mentorship:
- Natalia Molina, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—The Silent Hands that Shaped the Huntington: A History of Its Mexican Workers
We are grateful to the members of this year’s ASHSS review committee, who reviewed the applications and recommended applicants for funding:
- Cavan Concannon, Associate Professor of Religion, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Alice Echols, Barbra Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of History and Gender Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Priya Jaikumar, Professor, School of Cinematic Arts
- Amelia Jones, Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design, Roski School of Art and Design
- Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Ellen Seiter, Stephen K. Nenno Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts, School of Cinematic Arts
- David St. John, University Professor and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences