ASHSS Sabbatical
2023-2024
Tamara Black
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Humane Composition Pedagogy
Brian Finch
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Contextual Racism Database for Health Disparities Research
Amber Foster
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Humane Composition Pedagogy
Amy Ogata
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Seriality, Surface, Substance: Metallic Design in Modern France
2022-2023
Michael Bodie
School of Cinematic Arts
Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles
Paula Cizmar
School of Dramatic Arts
Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles – At Home
Lynn Helding
Thornton School of Music
Book Project: Practicing Science Informed Voice Pedagogy
Wesley Jones
School of Architecture
The Idea of Architecture
Sarah Mesle
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Reasons and Feelings: A Guide for Academic Writers in Hard Times
Pamela Starr
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Deciphering Mexico and Its Relations with the United States
Ann Marie Yasin
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Ruins Reoccupied
2021-2022
Veronika Krausas
Thornton School of Music
Sphinx – Concerto Grosso for 2 double bassess, harp and orchestra
Rebecca Lemon
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Plague Networks
Amy Powell
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Picture Box: A Small History of the Easel Painting
Eric Rawson
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Rhetorical Soundscapes: Aurality and the Composition Classroom
Deborah Sims
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Educating the Educators: Preparing Graduate Teachers for the Classroom and the Job Market
Tok Thompson
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Exploring Folklore, Mythology, and Anthropology
2020-2021
Kiki Benzon
School of Cinematic Arts
Playing With Fire: The Hidden Costs of Electronic Entertainment
Sherin Guirguis
Roski School of Art and Design
Public Installation for Forever is Now at Pyramids of Giza
Olivia Harrison
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Indigenous Critique: French AntiRacism and the Question of Palestine
Paul Lerner
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Exiles on Main Street: Central European Emigres, Suburban Housewives, and Cold War Consumer Culture
Sharon Lloyd
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Beyond the State of Nature
Sarah Portnoy
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Womens’ Oral History Projects
Julie Van Dam
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
La Visibilsation de la Sante: Visualizing Health in Contemporary Senegalese Urban Arts
2019-2020
Emily Anderson
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Shadow Work: Invisible Labor and the Writing Life
Brent Blair
School of Dramatic Arts
Liberation Arts & Community Engagement
Erin Graff Zivin
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Transmedial Exposure: Formal Experimentation Across Media
Amy Murphy
School of Architecture
A Long Way to Nowhere: Los Angeles and its Cinematic Representation 1960-1980
David Tomkins
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Practicing Assemblage: Multimodality in the Advanced Writing Classroom
2018-2019
Joseph Boone
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a posthumous Patricia Smith Yaeger manuscript
Christina Dunbar-Hester
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
To research project Sensing the Voices of Others: Knowledge, Difference, and Planetary Cataclysm
Sarah Gualtieri
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a first draft of a manuscript studying a Lebanese American family’s experiences in the Jim Crow south
Trudi Sandmeier
USC School of Architecture
To use digital tools for project Exploring the Nexus of Digital Humanities and Heritage Conservation – Case Studies
2017-2018
Beatice Bennett
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a biographical essay on Marguerite Yourcenar
Vicki Callahan
USC School of Cinematic Arts
To complete a monograph on the silent film innovator Mabel Normand
2016-2017
Mark Marino
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To undertake research for and the writing of a scholarly monograph in critical code studies
Ariela Gross
USC Gould School of Law
To finish a book on how the role of different legal regimes has shaped the experience of slavery, freedom, and race in the Americas
2015-2016
Kyung Moon Hwang
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a first-draft of a manuscript of Inescapable Shadows: Modern History and Contentious Memory in South Korea
Veronika Krausas
USC Thornton School of Music
To develop a new opera project with André Alexis and the Old Trout Puppet Company; the opera will be based on a ghost story and will involve live performers and puppets
Rebecca Lemon
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a draft of the manuscript Shakespeare’s Richard III: Literary Form, and to revise a second monograph of Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England
Susan McCabe
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete the manuscript H.D. and Bryher: A Modernist Love Story
Hilary Schor
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete the book Bound by Law: Form and Forgiveness in the Victorian Novel and to start a new project on disability studies, cinema and media studies, and bio-mechanics
2014-2015
Richard Fox
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a first-draft of a manuscript of The American Prophetic Tradition
Brian Rathbun
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a book on rational action in international relations
Ramzi Rouighi
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a book on the Berbers
2013-2014
Alice Echols
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a book on a Depression-era banking scandal and its reverberation
Lon Kurashige
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a book that rethinks the history of racially discriminatory public policies in the United States
Stephen Mack
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a book that examines the neurological and cognitive implications of the rapidly changing literary practices of American culture
Gary Watson
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To finish a set of papers for a volume of essays
2012-2013
Shannon Ebner
USC Roski School of Fine Arts
To concentrate on two international exhibitions and to complete a second artist’s book
Peter Erskine
USC Thornton School of Music
To participate in an opera and complete a book on the growth and change of music from the early 1960s to the present
Ange-Marie Hancock
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a book on the intellectual history of intersectionality
Andrew Lakoff
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciencess
To complete a book that presents a history of the emergence of a new of thinking about and managing collective security
Steve J. Ross
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a history of American Jewish resistance to Nazism in the pre-World War II era
Pamela Starr
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a textbook on the bilateral relationship between Mexico and the United States of America
2011-2012
James Brecher
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a textbook for teaching legal writing to undergraduate students
Jed Dannenbaum
USC School of Cinematic Arts
To complete a book that explores the centrality of storytelling in human society
Percival Everett
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To begin research on a new work of fiction
Thomas Habinek
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
To complete a collaborative book to rewrite the history of Western aesthetics
Richard Weinberg
USC School of Cinematic Arts
To complete a feature-length movie that further develops the techniques and applications of digital cinema microscopy
Research and Creative Grants
2023-2024
Evelyn Alsultany
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Secrets and Hard Truths
Cavan Concannon
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Lan Duong
School of Cinematic Arts
Transnational Vietnamese Cinemas and the Archives of Memory
Maya Maskarinec
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
Amy Murphy
School of Architecture
The Divided City and its New Cinemas
2022-2023
Daniela Bleichmar
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Women of Art and Science in the Early Modern World
Suzanne Lacy
Roski School of Art and Design
Uncertain Futures
Leland Saito
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Whites Moving Into Black Neighborhoods: Gentrification, Race and Community in South Los Angeles
2021-2022
Andy Campbell
Roski School of Art and Design
Critical Studies Poverty and Practice
Jennifer Hook
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
National Work-Family Policies and Occupational Segregation
Beatriz Ilari
Thornton School of Music
Musicking in the margins
Emily Smith-Greenway
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Intergenerational Consequences of Loss: Grandparental Death and Adolescent Wellbeing
Holly Willis
School of Cinematic Art
Affective Ecologies and the Cinematic Sensorium
2020-2021
Nao Bustamante
Roski School of Art and Design
Bloom
Tracy Fullerton
School of Cinematic Arts
Walden, a Game: EDU
Alison Hirsch
School of Architecture
A Landscape Ethic for the “Working Country” – Histories, Practices, Futures of the San Joaquin Valley
David Kelley
Roski School of Art and Design
The Book of the Dead
Colleen McQuillen
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Ecologies of Russian Modernism
2019-2020
David Albertson
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Female Mystic as Radical Philosopher
Brian Bernards
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Inter-Asian Cinema: Migrant Labor, Popular Culture, Tourism
Dorinne Kondo
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Vulnerable Theory: Power, Affect, Performance
Mary Sweeney
School of Cinematic Arts
Art and Science Podcast
2018-2019
Cavan Concannon
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Networking Early Christianity
Lisa Leeman
USC School of Cinematic Arts
TransFormed: GABI Then and Now
Megan Luke
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Reproduction and the Object of History
Ann Owens
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Place-Based Opportunity: Housing Models to Reduce Inequality in Children’s Contexts
2017-2018
Youngmin Choe
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Revival of Craft Aesthetics in Contemporary Korean Visual Culture
Nina Eliasoph
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Dilemmas of the Empowerment Project: Locating a Prevalent Organizational Form Using Computational Linguistics
Stephen Finlay
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Morals, Modals, and Motives
Aniko Imre
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Digital Connections in a Divided Europe
Hani Khafipour
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Mantle of the Sufi Kings: Religion and Politics in Early Modern Iran
Bill Yahraus
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Untitled Oxnard Project
2016-2017
Bruce Brown
USC Thornton School of Music
Bartolomeo Nucci and the Tuscan Castration Debate of 1778
Kathy Smith
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Slippages
Ann Yasin
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Roman Timescapes: Architecture and Temporality in the Imperial City
2015-2016
Joanna Demers
USC Thornton School of Music
Musical Fictions: Conditions for the Possibility of Contemporary Popular Music
Mark Harris
USC School of Cinematic Arts
United Foster Care Documentary
Jennifer Hook
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Stalled Gender Revolution: What Can We Learn From Other Countries
Kelly Shannon
USC School of Architecture
Water Urbanisms of the Mekong Delta: An Atlas for Adaptation to Climate Change
Jody Vallejo
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Latino Elites and the Non-Traditional Safety Net
Jennifer West
USC Roski School of Art and Design
Film Memory
Michael Messner
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Guys Like Me: Six Wars, Six Veterans for Peace
2014-2015
Bettine Birge
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khublai Khan (1260-1368)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Latinos and African Americans on Common Ground: A Study of Public Parks and Community Gardens in South L.A.
Sonya Lee
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Cave Temples of Sichuan in Eco-Art History
Paul Lichterman
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Culture of Public Problems: Who Can Say What about Housing?
Sunyoung Park
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Starship Korea: Science Fictional and Fantastic Imagination in South Korean Literature and Film, 1960w-2010s
Antonia Szabari
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Performing Friendship: The Writings of French Diplomats from the Ottoman Empire
Tok Thompson
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
World Mythology in Theory and in Everyday Life
2013-2014
Brian Bernards
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature
Don Crockett
USC Thornton School of Music
Boston Modern Orchestra Project Recording
Tracy Fullerton
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Walden, a game
Joshua Kun
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Allá: Mexican Music and Migrant Politics in 21st Century America
Maria Elena Martinez
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Enlightened Creole Science of Race and Sex: Naturalizing the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World
John Pollini
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Solarium of Augustus and the Measuring of Time in Ancient Rome
David Treuer
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
2012-2013
Daniela Bleichmar
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“Itinerant Lives of Painted Books: Mexican Codices and Transatlantic Knowledge in the Early Modern World”
Pablo Frasconi
USC School of Cinematic Arts
“The Light at Walden”
Erin Graff Zivin
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“Figurative Inquisitions”
Megan Luke
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“Sculpture as Photograph: The Art Object in Reproduction”
Jefferey Sellers
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“Local Governance, Civic Organization and Democracy in the Development World”
Laura Isabel Serna
USC School of Cinematic Arts
“The ‘Photo-Play’ Made Mexican: Race, Representation, and Labor in American Silent and Early Sound Film
Karen Tongson
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“Empty Orchestra”
2011-2012
Emily Anderson
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“Eighteenth-Century Characters and the Limits of Representation”
John Bowlt
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“Words of Magic: The Literary Heritage of Léon Bakst”
Patricia Burch
USC Rossier School of Education
“Assessing the Impact of Third Party After-School Programming for Students with Disabilities: A Multi-Site Mixed Method Study of Supplemental Educational Services”
Macarena Gómez-Barris
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“Andean Freedom: The Politics of Land, Indigeneity, and Decolonization”
Velina Hasu Houston
USC School of Theatre
“Brown Girl in the Ring Tra-La-La-La”
Jacques Hymans
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“The Evolution of Nuclear Japan: A Case Study of Institutional Resilience and Change”
Elsi Kaiser
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“Processing Discourse: Effects of Perspective-Taking”
Virginia Kuhn
USC School of Cinematic Arts
“Large Scale Video Analytics for Research and Scholarship”
Duncan Williams
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“Camp Dharma: Japanese American Buddhism and the World War Two Incarceration Experience”
Grant Writing Mentorship Program
2023-2024
Luisa Reis Castro
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The World Will Become Brazil: Ecologies, Epidemics, and the Reinvention of Mosquito Science
2022-2023
Mengxiao Wang
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Buddhism and Theatricality in Early Modern China
2021-2022
Edwin Hill
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Black Static: Listening for Dissensus in the French Republic of Sound
2020-2021
Daniela Bleichmar
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Museum of Difficult Objects
Andrew Lakoff
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Expert Knowledge and the Future of Water
2019-2020
Natalia Molina
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Silent Hands that Shaped the Huntington: A History of Its Mexican Workers
2018-2019
Susanna Berger
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Visual Expertise and the Aesthetics of Deception in Early Modern Italy
Maya Maskarinec
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
2016-2017
Carla Della Gatta
USC School of Dramatic Arts
Shakespeare and Latinidad: The Staging of Intracultural Theatre
2015-2016
Lisa Leeman
USC School of Cinematic Arts
The American Veda Documentary Project
2014-2015
Gail P. Borden
USC School of Architecture
Material Matter: Geometry and the Typological Implications of Material Space
2013-2014
Rachel Berney
USC School of Architecture
The MOBILE City Project: People, Transport and Public Life
Dan Lainer Vos
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Diaspora Lobbying and the Making of U.S.-Israel Relations
2012-2013
Erin Graff Zivin
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Figurative Inquisitions
Olivia Harrison
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Transcolonial Maghreb
Suzanne Hudson
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Better for the Making
2011-2012
David Albertson
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Figures of the Invisible
Dorinne Kondo
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Creative Difference(s): Theater and the Production of Race
Megan Luke
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Sculpture as Photograph and organize related conferences
Laura Isabel Serna
USC School of Cinematic Arts
The Photo-Play Made Mexican: Race, Representation and Labor in the Silent and Early Sound Periods
Mina Yang
USC Thornton School of Music
The Asian Wave: Post-Millenial Transpacific Hip-Hop
Last Updated September 2024