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- Program Director, Architectural Services
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- Member of the USC Dornsife Administrative Leadership Team
- Dean of USC Dornsife
- USC Dornsife Dean / Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Amber D. Miller is the 22nd dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. She holds the Anna H. Bing Dean's Chair and a faculty appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
When Miller arrived at USC Dornsife in July 2016, she announced an ambitious vision to significantly expand USC Dornsife's scholarly footprint, develop an unmatched educational experience for students, build a robust pipeline for diversity, and transform the way that universities engage with the public. She steered faculty, students, and staff through a comprehensive strategic planning process designed to vastly enhance the research mission and global impact of USC Dornsife and bring the university to a new level of elite recognition.
Miller's signature initiative is The Academy in the Public Square, which changes the way academic expertise is made available to civic and business leaders. It aims to significantly increase the accessibility and efficiency of knowledge transfer between academia and these leaders at a level not seen since the establishment of technology transfer at Stanford in the mid 20th century.
As the leader of the largest, oldest and most academically diverse school at USC, Miller is responsible for an institution comprised of roughly 1,700 faculty and staff and more than 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students. She oversees an annual budget of more than $500 million, which supports operations across 814,000 square feet of research space in 56 buildings, a research enterprise that generates almost $100 million in annual expenditures, and a technology infrastructure that supports more than 10,000 users.
In 2019, Miller launched a fundraising campaign to support intellectual priorities at USC Dornsife. Her goals include hiring 150 new tenure-line faculty, creating new centers and institutes, improving Ph.D. programs, and advancing The Academy in the Public Square.
Before arriving at USC Dornsife, Miller served as the first Dean of Science at Columbia University. In this role, she provided leadership across Columbia's nine natural science departments and their associated centers, including oversight of academic and faculty affairs, facilities, and fundraising. Miller produced the first strategic plan for the future of science in the university's history, which became the strategic planning template for the divisions of humanities and social sciences. She also played a key role in developing leadership and management plans for a number of interdisciplinary initiatives across the university. As professor of physics, Miller led the Experimental Cosmology group.
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- Exec. Director of Advancement, USC Shoah Foundation
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- Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute
- Professor of History
- Professor of History, Anthropology and Economics
- Professor of the Humanities
- Professor of the Humanities / Linda
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- Student Services Assistant
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- Assistant Dean for External Affairs
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- President of the University of Southern California, Comments on Dana and David Dornsife and the Impact of Their Remarkable Gift. Watch the Video.
C. L. Max Nikias, President of the University of Southern California, comments on Dana and David Dornsife and the impact of their remarkable gift.
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- Executive Director, Foundation Relations
- Senior Executive Director of Foundation Relations
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- Administrative Assistant II
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- CEO and Founder of Lazarex Cancer Foundation
Dana Dornsife is CEO and Founder of Lazarex Cancer Foundation, a nationwide non-profit organization that seeks to improve cancer health outcomes for advanced stage cancer patients and the medically underserved. She serves as Chair of the UCSF Cancer Leadership Council and is a member of the MGH Presidents Council. She is also Vice Chair of the governing board of the Yosemite Conservancy in addition to being a council member. Dana previously co-founded Axiom Design, Inc., an architectural electronic and lighting design firm established in 1991, and Adorn, a lighting and interior design company for the custom spec home market in 2002. She received her bachelor's degree in business from Drexel University, an Interior Design Certification from John F. Kennedy University, and her Lighting Design Certification through the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.
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- Senior Director of Strategic and Scientific Communication
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- Chairman
- Chairman of the Board of the Herrick Corporation
- President of the University of Southern California, Comments on Dana and David Dornsife and the Impact of Their Remarkable Gift. Watch the Video.
Dana and David Dornsife were featured speakers at a Visions and Voices event on Nov. 12, 2008, during which they discussed their involvement in water-well drilling in Africa. Watch the video.
David and Dana Dornsife are international philanthropists committed to using their time, talent, and resources to help address a wide range of societal problems. They believe in hands-on service and are deeply involved in their philanthropic work. They are also devoted and generous supporters of academic institutions and research, environmentalism, and sustainability. The Dornsife's steadfast focus on improving the quality of life for all people through their leadership and support of innovative research and programs reflects the core values of the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
David Dornsife is Chairman of the Board of the Herrick Corporation, a California based steel fabrication company, and its subsidiaries. A 1965 graduate of the USC Marshall School of Business, he was a shot-putter on the University's track team that won two national championships. David is a USC trustee; Vice President of the HEDCO Foundation, a Dornsife Family foundation whose mission is health and educational improvement; and a board member of the Yosemite Conservancy.
In 2011, the Dornsifes made a major naming gift to USC. As a result, the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences was named in their honor. Together, the Dornsifes served as members of the Steering Committee for the Tradition & Innovation fundraising initiative in the College. In 2009, their lead gift to USC and the Dornsife College neuroscience program provided support for the construction of a new Brain and Creativity Institute and building. Through the HEDCO Foundation, they helped fund the HEDCO Neurosciences Building, the HEDCO Auditorium, and the HEDCO Petroleum and Chemical Molecular Biology Laboratories.
Dean Miller's research centers on the study of relic signatures from the Big Bang, with the goal of understanding the origin and evolution of the universe. She also has an active research program in atmospheric physics. She leads teams of experimentalists to design, build, deploy, and analyze data from novel telescopes that facilitate observations in these two distinct fields.
Senior Associate Dean Sartin leads the senior management team of USC Dornsife's Office of Advancement, overseeing all directors of development and major gifts; corporate foundation and federal relations; and alumni and constituent relations. He is responsible for expanding the individual major gift prospect pool and proactively soliciting transformative gifts to the college. Sartin plays a crucial role in university advancement, working closely with senior vice president Al Checcio and his executive team on USC's overall campaign.
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- Senior Associate Dean for Advancement
Prior to managing a $400 million campaign for the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Sartin served as the school's chief development officer. Sartin also served as associate dean for alumni affairs and development for Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. There, he grew gift revenue from $7.1 million in 2010 to $13 million in 2011. Before that, Sartin was the executive director of development for the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler School of Business for six years.
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- Member of the USC Dornsife Administrative Leadership Team
- College Dean of Undergraduate Education
- College Dean of Undergraduate Education / Professor of English
Professor of English Emily Hodgson Anderson joins the Dornsife leadership team as the college dean of undergraduate education. Anderson, professor of English and a member of the USC community for 17 years, joins the leadership team after serving as the Dean's Leadership Fellow for Graduate and Professional Education. This appointment immediately followed a term as the Dean's Leadership Fellow in the Humanities. She has also served for eight years as director of graduate studies for the Department of English, and she previously served for three years on the USC Dornsife Faculty Council.
In her research capacity, she specializes in 18th-century British literature and culture and is the author of two books and numerous academic articles and chapters. Her most recent book, Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss, examines 18th-century reenactments of Shakespeare.
She has received fellowships from the Huntington Library, the British Academy and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and her work for the popular press has appeared in The Literary Hub, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the new USC Dornsife literary journal Air/Light. She's currently completing a collection of essays titled Shadow Work: Invisible Labor and the Writing Life.
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- Executive Director, Decision Support
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- Member of the Graduate Committee
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- Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute
- Professor of History, Anthropology and Economics
- Professor of the Humanities / Linda
Howard Gillman, former Dean of USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, responds to the Dornsifes' gift. Watch the video.
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- Member of the USC Dornsife Administrative Leadership Team
- Divisional Dean for the Life Sciences / Professor of Earth Sciences and Biological Science S
Divisional Dean for the Life Sciences
Professor of Earth Sciences and Biological Science s
(213) 740-0652
janamend@usc.edu
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- Associate Dean for HR
- Associate Dean for Human Resources
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- Senior Associate Dean for Communication and Marketing
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- Associate Dean
- Chief Technology Officer
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- Member of the Undergraduate Committee
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- Associate Dean, USC Dornsife Admission and Student Services
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- Director of Public Exchange
Kate Weber is the Director of Public Exchange™. She brings more than 10 years of federal government experience to USC from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where she developed environmental protection, health, civil society and infrastructure development projects across five countries.
She was part of a core team that launched and built the U.S. Global Development Lab - USAID's first innovation lab - in 2014. Kate advised the Lab's leadership on strategic outreach to 8,000 staff in 60+ countries and supported public-private partnerships between USAID and Unilever, Gap, IDEO and others on water and sanitation, Ebola and other global challenges.
She held previous roles at PwC and Ketchum in management and communications consulting. She is a graduate of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and the University of Texas at Austin.
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- Assistant Dean for Advancement
- Executive Director, Corporate Relations
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Academic Programs
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- Department of Mathematics
- Professor of Mathematics
Goldstein, L. (2018). Non asymptotic distributional bounds for the Dickman approximation of the running time of the Quickselect algorithm. Electronic Journal of Probability. Vol. 23, pp. 1--13. arXiv
Goldstein, L., Minsker, S., Wei, X. (2018). Structured signal recovery from non-linear and heavy-tailed measurements. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Vol. 64 (8), pp. 5513-5530. arXiv
Goldstein, L., Wiroonsri, N. (2018). Stein's method for positively associated random variables with applications to Ising, percolation and voter models. Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Vol. 54, pp. 385-421. arXiv
Chen, C., Gribble, M., Bartroff, J., Bay, S., Goldstein, L. (2017). The sequential probability ratio test: An efficient alternative to exact binomial testing for clean water act 303(d) evaluation. Journal of Environmental Management. Vol. 192, pp. 89-93.
Fulman, J., Goldstein, L. (2015). Stein's method and the rank distribution of random matrices over finite fields. Annals of Probability. Vol. 43, pp. 1274--1314. arXiv
Goldstein, L. (2013). A Berry-Esseen bound with applications to counts in the Erdös-Rènyi random graph. Annals of Applied Probability.
Ghosh, S., Goldstein, L., Raic, M. (2011). Concentration of measure for the number of isolated vertices in the Erdös-Rènyi random graph by size bias couplings. Statistics and Probability Letters. Vol. 81, pp. 1565-1570. arXiv
Goldstein, L., Langholz, B. (2001). Conditional logistic analysis of case-control studies with complex sampling. Biostatistics/Oxford University Press. Vol. 2, pp. 63-84.
Langholz, B., Thomas, D., Faucett, C., Huberman, M., Goldstein, L. (1999). Ascertainment correction in rate ratio estimation from case-sibling control studies of variable age-at-onset diseases. Biometrics. Vol. 55, pp. 1129-1136.
Steel, M., Goldstein, L., Waterman, M. (1996). A central limit theorem for the parsimony length of trees. Advances in Applied Probability. Vol. 28, pp. 1051-1071.
Goldstein, L., Khasminskii, R. (1995). On efficient estimation of smooth functionals. Theory of Probability and Applications. Vol. 40 (1), pp. 199-205.
Goldstein, L., Waterman, M. (1994). Approximations to profile score distributions. Journal of Computational Biology. Vol. 1 (1), pp. 93-104.
Goldstein, L. (1988). On the choice of step size in the Robbins Monro procedure. Statistics and Probability Letters. Vol. 6, pp. 299-303.
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- Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Affairs
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- Assistant Dean for Advancement
- Executive Director of Development
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- Computer Consultant Specialist
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- Member of the USC Dornsife Administrative Leadership Team
- Divisional Dean for the Physical Sciences and Mathematics
El-Naggar, who began his academic career at USC in 2007, holds joint appointments in biological sciences and chemistry. His research is focused on biological physics, biological electron transfer, biotic-abiotic interface and living electronics. Since 2018, he has been principal investigator of a five-year, multi-university research initiative on synthetic microbial electronics.
Having authored or co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed publications, many of which were with colleagues from different USC Dornsife departments, El-Naggar exemplifies USC Dornsife's spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration. He is a regular public scholar, sharing and commenting on research in news media that include PBS Newshour, Wired, NPR and Popular Science, which named him one of the "Brilliant 10" of 2012.
His record of service to the university includes terms on the University Committee on Academic Promotions and Tenure, University Committee on Academic Review, University Research Committee, and the President's and Provost's Task Force on Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
El-Naggar's many honors and awards at USC include the Raubenheimer Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty Member, the USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award and USC Dornsife's General Education Teaching Award.
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- ADMINISTRATION and FINANCE
- Director of Research Administration
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- Chairman of the Undergraduate Committee
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- Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute
- Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute and Professor of History, Anthropology, and Economics
- Professor of History, Anthropology and Economics
- Professor of the Humanities / Linda
As divisional dean for the social sciences, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology Peter Mancall works with social sciences departments, centers and institutes to help them recruit and retain outstanding faculty and advance innovative research.
Mancall joined USC Dornsife's history department in 2001, where he specializes in early modern history and the early modern Atlantic world. In 2003, he helped create the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. As the Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute, he has worked to further its mission of supporting advanced research and scholarship on human societies between 1450 and 1850. The institute has sponsored more than 1,600 scholarly talks, and it has an ongoing partnership with the Omohundro Institute/William and Mary Quarterly as well as a partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Press for its "Early Modern Americas" series, for which he is the editor. He is also the primary investigator for two current grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: The Humanities in a Digital World and The Humanities in the University of the Future.
Mancall has held several other leadership roles at USC Dornsife: From 2016 to 2020, he served as the divisional dean for the humanities, and from 2007 to 2009 he was an associate vice provost for research advancement. In addition, Mancall has authored seven books and is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians and the Royal Historical Society. He was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University during the 2019-20 academic year.
Divisional Dean for the Social Sciences
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities
Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute
Professor of History, Anthropology and Economics
(213) 821-2151
mancall@usc.edu
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- Associate Dean and Chief Diversity Officer
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- Vice Dean, Administration and Finance
Renee Perez received a Master of Public Administration degree with a concentration in nonprofit management in 2015 from USC. In addition, she completed the prestigious HERS Institute in Higher Education Leadership Development in 2016. She has 13 years of experience in higher education administration and began her USC career at USC Dornsife in 2011. Before that, she worked at California State University, Long Beach. She also spent many years working in both primary/secondary education and corporate environments.
In her current position, she oversees the administration and finance of USC Dornsife. The areas for which she is responsible are Operations, Finance, Research, Faculty Affairs, Diversity, Human Resources, Technology Services, and Architectural and Facility Services. She and her team of outstanding individuals have a strong focus on improvements in efficient processes and customer service to ensure USC Dornsife's academic and research mission continually progresses upward.
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- Associate Dean
- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
Richard Fliegel is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in USC Dornsife College. Working with the Vice Dean for Academic Programs and faculty across the College's departments, Dr. Fliegel creates new interdisciplinary curriculum, manages University-wide academic programs, and researches the assessment of critical thinking. He directs the USC General Education program, the Freshmen Seminar program, and Interdisciplinary Major, and oversees Dornsife College's on-campus summer programs through the Interdisciplinary Studies (INDS) office. He has report responsibility for the Writing Program and Thematic Option, and at one time or another has overseen the Dornsife Advisement Office, the Language Center, the community-based service-learning Joint Educational Project, and other programs and projects.
Dr. Fliegel's research explores the use of student writing for their classroom instructors as a method for assessing the growth in critical thinking that takes place over their undergraduate years. In addition to his research and administrative duties, Dr. Fliegel writes fiction and original work in other media. He has published detective novels with Bantam and Simon and Schuster and short stories in collections. His book A Minyan for the Dead was nominated for a Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America, and as a member of the WGA West he has written for Star Trek and ABC network television.
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- Robert Guralnick ( Chair ), Juhi Jang, Sergey Lototsky
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- Senior Administrator, Assistant to the Dean
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- Divisional Dean for the Humanities / Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Gender Studies
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Gender Studies Sherry Velasco serves as divisional dean for the humanities. Her areas of specialization include Early Modern Spanish prose and theater and early modern women's narrative. Other interests include gender studies, queer theory and visual cultural studies.
Velasco has held numerous leadership positions at USC. She served on USC Dornsife's Diversity Council and Humanities Personnel Committee as well as the university's Digital Humanities Program Executive Board and Curriculum Committee on Diversity, among many others.
She served several terms as chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (now the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures) and of the Department of French and Italian. She has been recognized with USC's General Education Teaching Award, the Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative and a Faculty Fellowship with the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. Velasco joined USC Dornsife in 2006, and she will continue to hold her current appointments as professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Gender Studies Program.
She is the author of four books: Lesbians in Early Modern Spain (Vanderbilt, 2011); Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain (Vanderbilt, 2006); The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso (Texas, 2000); and Demons, Nausea and Resistance in the Autobiography of Isabel de Jesús (1611-1682) (New Mexico, 1996).
Divisional Dean for the Humanities
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Gender Studies
(213) 740-7659
svelasco@usc.edu
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- Executive Director of Stewardship
- Senior Executive Director of Stewardship
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- Member of the USC Dornsife Administrative Leadership Team
- Senior Advisor
- Professor of Chemistry
- Senior Advisor to the Dean for Research Strategy and Development
As senior advisor to the dean for research strategy and development, Professor of Chemistry Stephen Bradforth oversees large collaborative projects, such as those in the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Biosciences, and cultivates new research opportunities at USC Dornsife. Working with divisional deans, he develops and steers proposals for large-center grants; leads faculty-led research initiatives; forges new partnerships with industry, institutions and other USC schools; and shepherds development of new general-use research buildings and equipment. He also works with USC Dornsife Advancement to pursue funding for large research opportunities and shares oversight for research grant strategy with USC Dornsife research administration.
Before serving in his current role, Bradforth was the divisional dean for the physical sciences and mathematics, coordinating strategic planning, faculty appointments and research advancement within the USC Dornsife Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Bradforth joined the Department of Chemistry in 1996 and has held numerous leadership positions within the department, including head of the physical and theoretical chemistry section, vice chair and chair. From 2017-20, he served as USC Dornsife's divisional dean for the natural sciences and mathematics. He is active in national efforts, spearheaded by the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement and the Association of American Universities, to reform undergraduate STEM education in research-intensive universities.
As a physical chemist, Bradforth's lab designs experiments to gain a deeper understanding of how the interconnected motions of molecules impact chemical reactions in complex but frequently encountered environments such as the aqueous milieu of cells or in functional molecular materials. His research applies ultrafast laser techniques to address contemporary scientific challenges that span multiple fields.
Bradforth's honors include a Dreyfus New Faculty award and a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. He is a Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement, receiving the organization's STAR award in 2019. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At USC, he has been recognized with the Raubenheimer junior faculty award as well as the USC Mellon Mentoring award for mentoring faculty.
Senior Advisor to the Dean for Research Strategy and Development
Professor of Chemistry
(213) 740-0461
stephen.bradforth@usc.edu
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- Senior Associate Dean for Creative Content
Stephen Koenig leads USC Dornsife's creative strategy and messaging to promote schoolwide, public-facing initiatives.
Overseeing the Creative Content team, Stephen develops effective ways to convey the dean's vision for bringing the academy into the public square. Working closely with the Office of Communication and the Office of Advancement, he focuses on bringing big-picture consistency to the ways that USC Dornsife highlights its leadership in research, education, and public service, while ensuring that messages resonate for a wide range of stakeholders. The Creative Content team also manages USC Dornsife's website and brand strategy.
Before joining the Dean's Office, Stephen was an independent communication consultant for colleges and universities, museums, and enrollment marketing firms. Two of his messaging campaigns earned gold Educational Advertising Awards. He also served for five years as communication manager for the USC Provost, and he was part of the literary group at Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Stephen earned his bachelor's degree in communication and philosophy from Northwestern University.
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- College Dean of Graduate and Professional Education / Professor of Biological Sciences
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- Editor - in - Chief of USC Dornsife Magazine and Associate Director of Communication
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- Chairman of the Graduate Committee
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- Executive Director of Finance
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- Associate Dean for Experiential Learning