- Lois Banner
Lois Wendland Banner, more commonly known as Lois W. Banner, is an American feminist author. She received her Ph.D. at Columbia University. She is the author of the textbook "Women in Modern America: A Brief History", which is commonly used in introductory Women's Studies college classes. In addition, her published works include: * "American Beauty" published by Alfred Knopf.
- Kevin Starr
Kevin Starr (born 3 September 1940 in San Francisco) is an American historian, best-known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "America and the California Dream". Starr is currently University Professor and Professor of History at the University of Southern California, but has been a professor or visiting lecturer at numerous California universities, including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Riverside, Santa Clara University, …
- Carl Kesselman
Carl Kesselman, Dir. Center for Grid Technologies, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Chief Scientist, Univa Corporation
- Steven B. Sample
Steven B. Sample (born 1940) is the 10th and current (1991-) President of the University of Southern California.
- Robbie Conal
Robbie Conal is an American guerilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. A former hippie, he is noted for his use of snipes to distribute his poster art throughout a city overnight. Conal's parents were both union organizers, and he grew up in Manhattan. He received his bachelor's degree in fine arts from San Francisco State University in 1968 and his MFA from Stanford University in 1978.
- Percival Everett
Percival Everett (born 1956) is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
- George Andrew Olah
George Andrew Olah is a Hungarian-born American chemist. He was significant in stabilizing and in studying carbocations via superacids. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994. In 2005 he was awarded the Priestley Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Chemical Society. Olah studied, then taught, at what is now Budapest University of Technology and Economics. As a result of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, …
- Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer, (born 1936) is an American journalist who writes a nationally syndicated op-ed column for the "San Francisco Chronicle" from a left perspective. He teaches communications as a professor at the University of Southern California and edits the online magazine Truthdig.
- Geoffrey Cowan
Geoffrey Cowan is former director of the Voice of America and current Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
- Scott Fisher
Scott Fisher is Professor and Chair of the Interactive Media Division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, and a Fellow of the the Annenberg Center for Communication there. He is an artist and technologist who has worked extensively on virtual reality, including stints at NASA, Atari Research Labs, MIT's Architecture Machine Group and Keio University.
- Paul Debevec
Paul Debevec is a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. He is best known for his pioneering work in high dynamic range imaging and image-based modelling and rendering. Debevec received his Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1996; his thesis research was in photogrammetry, or the recovery of the 3D shape of an object from a collection of still photographs taken from various angles.
- Frank Ticheli
Frank Ticheli (born Jan 21, 1958 in Monroe, Louisiana) is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and concert band works. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is a Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California. A number of his works are particularly notable, as they have become standards in concert band repertoire.
- John Hospers
John Hospers (born 9 June 1918) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Hospers earned advanced degrees from the University of Iowa and Columbia University and taught in the fields of philosophy and aesthetics. Early in his career he taught philosophy at Brooklyn College and at California State University, Los Angeles. Hospers' books include: "Meaning and Truth in the Arts" (1946), …
- Judith Halberstam
Judith Halberstam is professor of English and director of the Center for Feminist Research at USC. She is the author of Female Masculinity (Duke), The Drag King Book (Serpent's Tail) and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (forthcoming, NYU).
- António Damásio
António Damasio, <small>GOSE</small>;, pron., (b. 1944, Lisbon, Portugal) is a behavioral neurologist and neuroscientist. He is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, where he heads USC's Brain and Creativity Institute. Prior to taking up his posts at USC, in 2005, Damasio was M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, United States.
- Lloyd Levitin
Professor Lloyd A. Levitin, (October 25, 1932 -) is an American businessman, former business executive, and currently professor of clinical finance and business economics at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. He teaches financial analysis and valuation courses in the full-time MBA and undergraduate programs. He has published articles on corporate diversification and accountants' scope of liability for defective financial reports.
- Leonard Adleman
Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing. RSA is in widespread use in security applications, including digital signatures. Born in California, Adleman grew up in San Francisco, and attended the University of California, …
- Laurie Brand
Professor Laurie A. Brand is the current director or the University of Southern California School of International Relations. Professor Brand specializes in the international relations of the Middle East, including political economy of the region and inter-Arab relations. She received her B.S. in French from Georgetown University, her M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from the same institution.
- Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters. A close friend of Alice Sebold (both graduated from the distinguished creative writing MFA program at UC Irvine), she also teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California. A native of Los Angeles, Bender is influenced by the French Surrealists and the Italian writer Italo Calvino.
- Gay Talese
Gay Talese (born February 7 1932) is an American author. He wrote for "The New York Times" in the early 1960s and helped to define literary journalism or "new nonfiction reportage", also known as New Journalism. His two most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra. Talese is a visiting writer at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California each spring.
- Warren Bennis
Professor Bennis has served on the faculty of MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he was Chairman of the Organizational Studies Department. He is a former faculty member of Harvard and Boston University, former provost and Executive Vice President of State University of New York at Buffalo. He was President of the University of Cincinnati from 1971-1977. Professor Bennis is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School.
- Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.
- S. Mark Young
S. Mark Young holds the George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports and Entertainment Business at the University of Southern California. He is also a Professor of Accounting and Management within the Marshall School of Business, and a Professor of Communication (USC Annenberg School for Communication). Young teaches and does research in the area of entertainment management with a speciality in the psychology of celebrity and popular culture.
- Pamela J. Bjorkman
Pamela J. Bjorkman is the Max Delbrück Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Adjunct Professor of biochemistry at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Her research centers on the study of the three dimensional structures of proteins related to Class I MHC, or Major Histocompatibility Complex, proteins.
- John Guttag
John Guttag is a Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has served as that department's Associate Department Head for Computer Science. In January, he will become Department Head. He also heads the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science's Software Devices and Systems Group. This group does research in the areas of computer networks, computer and communications security, and wireless communications.
- Leo Braudy
Leo Braudy (born June 11, 1941 in Philadelphia, PA) is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he teaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, film history and criticism, and American culture. He has previously taught at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins University. He is best known for his cultural studies scholarship on celebrity, masculinity, and film, …
- Richard Bellman
Richard Ernest Bellman was an applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics. Bellman studied mathematics at Brooklyn College (B.A. 1941) and the University of Wisconsin (M.A.). He then went to work for a Theoretical Physics Division group in Los Alamos. In 1946 he received his Ph.D. at Princeton. He was a professor at the University of Southern California, …
- Hayward Alker
Hayward R. Alker is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California School of International Relations. Professor Alker specializes in core theory & methods; International politics & security. He received his B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has been John A. McCone Professor of International Relations at USC since 1995; previously, …
- Drew Casper
Joseph Andrew "Drew" Casper is an award-winning Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Dr. Casper attended Fordham University where he earned his Bachelors degree in English Literature and Philosophy. Upon completion of these programs, he immediately enrolled into Fordham University's master's program in American Literature and Theology which he did complete.
- Solomon W. Golomb
Dr. Golomb, while completing his Ph.D., spent a year in Norway as a Fulbright Fellow. He then worked as a Senior Research Mathematician at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, later becoming Research Group Supervisor and then Assistant Chief of the Telecommunications Research Section, where he played a key role in formulating the design of deep-space communications for the subsequent lunar and planetary explorations.
- Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan is an American film critic who was born in Brooklyn, New York. A reviewer for the "Los Angeles Times", he also provides regular reviews for "Morning Edition" on National Public Radio.
- George V. Chilingar
George V. Chilingarian (he uses both Chilingar and Chilingarian as his last name) is a Professor of civil and petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He is one of the best-known petroleum geologists in the world and the founder of several prestigious journals in the oil and gas industry. Chilingar has published 61 books and hundreds of articles on geology, petroleum engineering and environmental engineering.
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, born Thomas John Boyle on December 2, 1948) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eleven novels and more than 60 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, "World's End", which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children.
- Douglas Greenberg
Douglas Greenberg is a Professor of History at the University of Southern California and the Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
- Susan Estrich
To learn the answers to questions like these, one need only look through some of the prolific writing of Susan Estrich -- politician, professor, lawyer and writer.
- C. L. Max Nikias
Chrysostomos L. Max Nikias has served as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California since June 2005. Over the course of his career as a researcher, educator, and university administrator, Nikias has earned acclaim for his leadership, innovation, and fundraising, as well as his ability to build partnerships among varied constituencies.
- Mizuko Ito
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist at the University of Southern California and Keio University, specializing in studies of media technology use. Currently, her work focuses on Japanese technoculture, including children's media mixes and youth mobile phone use. She is co-editing a book on Japanese mobile phone use entitled "Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life."
- Julian Bleecker
Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design in Los Angeles and the Near Future Laboratory where he investigates emerging social practices around new networked interaction rituals. He focuses on hands-on prototyping as a way to make new things. He lectures and leads workshops on the intersections of art, design, technology and the near-future possibilities for new social-technical interaction rituals.
- Tomlinson Holman
Tomlinson Holman is an American film theorist and inventor of film technologies, notably the Lucasfilm THX sound system. He developed the world's first 10.2 sound system. One of the first 10.2 implementations for public demonstration was installed in 2001 at Bjorn's Audio Video in San Antonio, TX in the Bjorn's "Ultimate Theater Experience", alongside a high-end 6.1 home theater system.
- Anne Friedberg
Anne Friedberg is Chair of the Critical Studies Division in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. An author, historian and theorist of modern media culture, Professor Friedberg received her PhD. in Cinema Studies from NYU. She was on the faculty of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine, …