USC Academic Deans Flashcards
For Steph only
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Anthony Bailey
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- Dean of the USC Bovard College which supports individuals during key academic and career transitions through online and hybrid programs, including master’s degrees in high demand fields.
- He also oversees the USC International Academy, USC Summer Programs and the American Language Institute.
- Also serves as USC’s VP for Strategic and Global Initiatives, building the USC brand and coordinating recruitment efforts globally, and representing USC with foreign universities, governments, and other institutions abroad.
- He manages USC’s international operations, including its nine international offices.
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Willow Bay
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- Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and holder of the Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication.
- She launched USC Annenberg’s Media Center in Wallis Annenberg Hall, introduced the school’s new Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree program, welcomed the first cohort of the school’s nine-month Master of Science in Journalism program.
- Her broadcast experience includes reporting for ABC News’ Good Morning America/Sunday and serving as a correspondent for Good Morning America and World News Weekend. The first woman to co-anchor CNN’s Moneyline News Hour, she also anchored Business Unusual and Pinnacle and served as a correspondent for the Today Show morning program.
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David Bridel
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- Dean of the USC School of Dramatic Arts. He is the inaugural holder of the Braverman Family Dean’s Chair.
- Prior to that, he served as interim dean of the School of Dramatic Arts, associate dean of global initiatives, and director of MFA in Acting program.
- An accomplished director, choreographer, playwright, librettist and performer
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Pinchas Cohen
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- Dean of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, holder of the William and Sylvia Kugel Dean’s Chair in Gerontology, and executive director of the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center.
- Served as vice chair for research at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he oversaw a variety of teaching, training and research activities related to diseases of aging, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease.
- Prior to UCLA, he was chief and professor of endocrinology at Mattel Children’s Hospital.
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Milton S. F. Curry
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- Dean of the USC School of Architecture. He is the holder of the Della and Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair in Architecture.
- Comes from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where he was associate dean for academic affairs and strategic initiatives.
- He taught at the University of Michigan and Harvard and has a master’s degree in architecture with distinction from Harvard.
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Robert A. Cutietta
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- Dean of the USC Thornton School of Music and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance.
- He was appointed after working with Glorya during the time she was gifting to USC. They used to meet to discuss the impact of a new dance school at SC.
- During his tenure, the school’s endowment increased with five new endowed faculty chairs and one professorship, millions of dollars in new scholarships, and funding for new endeavors, and has supplemented the faculty with new world-class artist/teachers.
- A member of The Orange County School of the Arts.
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Elizabeth M. Daley
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- Dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts
- She is the inaugural holder of the Steven J. Ross/Time Warner Dean’s Chair. Daley was also the founding executive director of the USC Annenberg Center for Communication (1994-2005) and serves as the executive director of the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy.
- She was a producer for MGM/Television and was twice nominated for a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award
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Karen Symms Gallagher
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- Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, her mission is to improve learning in urban education locally, nationally and globally.
- Under her leadership, Rossier launched its online Master of Arts in Teaching degree in 2009, which has grown the number of highly trained teachers ten-fold. The School also started the practitioner-focused education doctorate, the Ed.D, that is now a national model.
- In LA, she and her faculty have partnered with LAUSD to start the USC Hybrid High School, a transformational charter school using personalized curriculum, technology, and flexible schedules to assure success for students most at risk of dropping out.
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Andrew T. Guzman
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- Dean of the USC Gould School of Law, & holder of the Carl Mason Franklin Dean’s Chair in Law. An authority on international law and economics.
- He was the Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and Associate Dean of International and Executive Education at UC Berkeley, and also served as the director of the Advanced Law Degree Programs.
- Before joining the faculty at Berkeley, he served as judicial clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He received his J.D. and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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William W. Holder
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- Dean at the USC Leventhal School of Accounting and holder of the Alan Casden Dean’s Chair.
- Held USC’s Ernst and Young Professorship in Accounting from 1990 until his appointment to the deanship.
- He directed the university’s Master of Accounting Program from 1983 to 1988 and has directed the USC SEC and Financial Reporting Institute since 1994
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Gareth James
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- Interim dean of the USC Marshall School of Business and holder of the E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Data Sciences and Operations.
- Been with USC Marshall for over 20 years and previously served for four years as the Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
- Originally from New Zealand, an expert on statistical methodology.
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Jack H. Knott
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- Dean of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and holder of the C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean’s Chair.
- Named a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2007.
- Holds a Ph.D. in political science from Cal Berkeley, a master’s degree in economics and comparative politics from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
- Former professor of public policy and management at the University of Illinois
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Haven Lin-Kirk
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- Dean of the USC Roski School of Art and Design.
- Prior, she served as USC Roski’s vice dean of design, bringing national acclaim to the school and the creation of an MFA program in design, in a new facility in the downtown Los Angeles Arts District.
- Won lots of awards in design. Born in Taiwan, she moved to Montreal then to the U.S. and earned a master’s degree at Claremont Graduate University and a bachelor’s degree Cal State Fullerton.
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Amber Miller
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- Dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, she oversees USC’s largest, oldest and most academically diverse school.
- She also holds the Anna H. Bing Dean’s Chair, in addition to a faculty appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at USC Dornsife.
- She served as the chief science adviser to the New York Police Department Counterterrorism Bureau for two years.
- Got her Ph.D. and master’s in physics from Princeton and her bachelor’s in physics and astronomy from Berkeley. Before joining USC Dornsife in 2016 as its first female dean, she served as dean of science for Columbia University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Laura Mosqueda
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- Dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the first woman to lead the Keck School of Medicine since it was established in 1885.
- A professor of Family Medicine and Geriatrics at the Keck School
- Also serves as the associate dean of Primary Care and the chair of the Department of Family Medicine. as well as the director of the National Center on Elder Abuse (and neglect).
- In 2003, she founded the first Elder Abuse Forensic Center in the U.S.
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Erica Muhl
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- Founding director and Dean of the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation, which welcomed its first freshman class in fall 2014.
- Simultaneously, she served as dean of the USC Roski School of Art and Design, a position she held from through June 2018.
- Prior, she served as associate dean of the USC Thornton School of Music, and is a Professor of Composition with tenure.
- Under her guidance, the Academy has emerged at the forefront of the drive to expand the reach of higher education beyond traditional disciplinary and toward new pathways for learning.
- Also is a consultant for K-12 education, including to design the capstone event for the 2018 Apple Learning Series, a 2-day seminar for K-12 teachers and administrators at the Iovine and Young Academy’s “Garage” incubator.
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Vassilios Papadopoulos
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- Dean of the USC School of Pharmacy on and holds the John Stauffer Dean’s Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences at USC.
- A School of Pharmacy graduate of the University of Athens in Greece, he holds a Ph.D. in health and life science from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France
- In 1988, he joined the faculty of Georgetown Univ. School of Medicine, rising to become professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In 2004, he was appointed associate VP for research and then director of the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization at Georgetown University Medical Center.
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Catherine Quinlan
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- Dean of the USC Libraries and is the inaugural holder of the Valerie and Ronald Sugar Dean’s Chair.
- She guides a model for the 21st-century library by providing leadership for USC’s library faculty and staff; collaborating with other universities to develop resources for scholars; and building partnerships with art, museum, library, and other institutions throughout Southern California.
- In collaboration with the Marshall School, she developed the Master of Management in Library and Information Science program, which received full, seven-year accreditation by the American Library Association in 2017.
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Avishai Sadan
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- Dean of the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC and holds the G. Donald and Marian James Montgomery Dean’s Chair in Dentistry.
- He came from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, where he was associate dean of clinical affairs and also chaired the department of comprehensive care.
- Received his bachelor’s and D.M.D. degrees from Hebrew University’s Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem.
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Suzanne Wenzel
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- Interim dean of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, and holds the Richard and Ann Thor Professorship in Urban Social Development.
- Also serves as chair of the school’s Department of Adult Mental Health and Wellness, conducting research that seeks to better understand and address the health-related needs of vulnerable populations, particularly homelessness.
- Her research has included studies of the social context of risk for substance abuse and HIV/AIDS among men, women, and youth experiencing homelessness, as well as trauma.
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Yannis C. Yortsos
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- Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the Zohrab Kaprielian Chair in Engineering.
- He joined the USC faculty of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering in 1978. He served as chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering (1991 - 1996).
- He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, where he has also served as secretary, vice-chair and chair and since 2017, he serves as a member of the NAE Council.
- Served on the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Committees for the 2017 report on a New Vision for Center-Based Engineering Research. He currently serves as a member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Advisory Committee.
