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Kevin Kelly (left) and Ryan Drap, both seniors majoring in geography in USC College, stand next to their poster mapping out the air pollution levels near all roads in Los Angeles County. The poster and research won a top award by the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Students Austen Lee and Juan Morales were also on the winning team. The students had participated in the College's Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF). Photo credit Taylor Foust.

SURF Students Wave Hello to Top Award

November 3, 2009

USC College's Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) has made a splashy entrance. After the program's second official year, research produced by SURF students has won a top honor from the Association of Pacific Coast… more>

categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research

tags: air pollution, award, geography, surf

The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Inc. selected George Sanchez as the outstanding Latino/a faculty in higher education research institutions. “I am deeply honored,” he said. Photo credit Alexandra Bissonette.

Higher Education Group Honors Sanchez

October 29, 2009

George Sanchez, director of diversity and professor of American studies and ethnicity and history at USC College, has been selected as the outstanding Latino/a faculty in higher education research institutions by the American… more>

categories: research, faculty research

tags: american studies and ethnicity, award, history, humanities

Robin D. G. Kelley, professor of American studies and ethnicity, and history, spent 14 years researching and writing his new biography of legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. Photo credit LisaGay Hamilton.

No Myths, Just Monk: The Story of a Musical Legend

October 27, 2009

Every day for almost a year, Robin D. G. Kelley dug through junk to find a man. In a storage facility stacked to the ceiling with overflowing bags and boxes, Kelley donned a dust mask and spent hours sorting through the… more>

categories: research, faculty research

tags: american studies and ethnicity, biography, book, history, humanities, jazz, music, piano

Portraits by Eric O’Connell Photography. O’Connell, a professional photographer, is enrolled in the Master of Arts in Visual Anthropology program at USC College. His project focuses on the visual ethnography of men and women in Germany who have adopted the “lifestyle” of the American cowboy.

Legends Asch and Myerhoff Inspire A New Generation of Visual Anthropologists

October 23, 2009

Twenty-six years ago the first visual research center at USC within the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences was founded by Academy award winner Barbara Myerhoff ("Number Our Days"). The program thrived and was further… more>

categories: graduate, graduate research

tags: anthropology, center for visual anthropology, germany, master's degree, media, peru, social sciences

USC College undergraduates Tiffany Handley (left) and Nastasia Bach distribute textbooks to students at Hen Rolea Phieat High School in the Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia. Photo courtesy of Kosal Path.

Seeking the Truth of the Khmer Rouge

October 22, 2009

Born and raised in Prasat, a small village in Cambodia, Kosal Path was not yet one when the radical Communist Khmer Rouge came into power, igniting a genocide that would end in the massacre of nearly 2 million… more>

categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research

tags: cambodia, genocide, international relations, problems without passports, pwp, united nations