Department of History
Department Chair
Steven J. Ross
Contact Information
Social Sciences Building (SOS) 153
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034
Tel: (213) 740-1657
Fax: (213) 740-6999
More Information
Department Web Site: http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/history/
Course Catalogue
Schedule of Classes
Faculty Roster
Selected Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Placements
USC College’s history department has more than 30 faculty members with pronounced strengths in medieval, colonial American, modern American, East Asian, Latin American, Russian and European history. Through the years, the department has cultivated great strengths in the history of California and the American West.
Recent faculty publications span topics from the history of household government in America to movies, and American society to major problems in Asian-American history.
In recent years, many collaborative research projects have taken root. In medieval history, the College co-sponsors Matrix, an online resource for research on women in religious orders. USC also has hosted the NEH summer seminar on Japan and modernity. A number of faculty and graduate students have taken part in the creation of digital archives within the Archival Research Center, which focuses on the Los Angeles area, linking censuses, maps and photographs of census tracts in the city. Members of the department also support a community study of Boyle Heights, the West Coast equivalent of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. More recently, the department announced the formation of a USC- Huntington Library Institute of Early Modern Studies collaboration designed to support advanced research and scholarship on human societies between 1450 and 1850.
The new Multimedia History Lab has been key to the department’s technological evolution. The lab provides training and access to resources that allow faculty and students to package research, lectures and class materials through fresh media, such as streaming video, digital photographs and searchable archives.
The research of current faculty has been recognized by grants from most of the major institutions awarding fellowships to historians including the American Council of Learned Societies, American Antiquarian Society, J. Paul Getty Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Huntington Library, Institute for Advanced Study, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Newberry Library, Rockefeller Foundation and Warren Center.
Undergraduate degrees and programs
History, B.A., Minor
Graduate degrees and programs
History, M.A., Ph.D.
Related research centers
Multimedia History Lab, http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/history/history_lab/
Archival Research Center, http://www.usc.edu/arc
Matrix, http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu
Boyle Heights Project, http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/pase/bhproject |
