Born and raised in Mexico, Professor of Communication Hector Amaya explores how drug violence in the country has captured our imaginations and led to new forms of participation in public culture. His new book, Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States...
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have documented humanitarian crises around the globe. With their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement and the massacre that followed, they became the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
They have co-authored several books together, including A Path Appears and Half the Sky , which have...
On Feb. 1, 2020, USC Annenberg hosted the “I Too Am” Media Festival, funded by California Humanities , the independent nonprofit partner of the National Endowment of the Humanities. The day-long event was organized by Alison Trope , clinical professor of communication, DJ Johnson, associate...
One of USC Annenberg’s newest faculty members, associate professor of communication Jennifer Petersen , wasted no time getting into the classroom. Fresh off her arrival from her previous position at the University of Virginia, she taught the graduate-level “Feminist Theory and Communication” course in Fall 2019,...
A new study from USC Annenberg’s Center for the Digital Future found that many Americans would go to great lengths to lower their health insurance rates — including agreeing to 24/7 personal monitoring.
Many Americans are willing to make significant personal tradeoffs to lower their health insurance rates or medical costs, such as agreeing to 24/7 personal monitoring or working with...
To reflect the sweeping transformation across the global communications landscape, USC Annenberg has developed a new Master of Arts in Public Relations and Advertising program that will position students at the leading edge of these dynamic industries.
The inaugural class will enroll in Fall 2020 as the new graduate degree program succeeds the MA in Strategic...
An exploration of culture and identity through a fusion of skateboards with traditional Iranian art.
Art has the ability to transcend national borders and language barriers, giving it a unique power to generate empathy. Any piece of art has this power, whether it be a painting, a sculpture, a photograph — or a skateboard deck.
While I was earning my...
Every summer from the time he was seven through 16 years of age, Ernest Owens would travel from his hometown of Houston to Marianna, Arkansas, where he would spend three months with his grandmother. She had grown up in the small town just an hour and a half east of Little Rock and “knew her way around town,” Owens said. She could walk into any room — any situation — and leave with a new friend. This is what she wanted for her grandson.
