The goal of the Translational Imaging Center is to develop new technologies for the imaging of biological structure and function. Both a research center and a user facility, the Translational Imaging Center employs advanced imaging tools to follow events as they take place inside an intact organism. The center’s research group includes a diverse range…
The Francophone Research and Resource Center (FRC) at USC Dornsife is a hub for research, scholarship, and activities related to Francophone writers, scholars, filmmakers, journalists, and scientists. A member of the Center of Excellence network established by the French Embassy to the United States of America, the FRC is one of 20 centers established in…
The Center for Transpacific Studies (CTS) at USC Dornsife supports scholars who study the United States’ relationship with Asia, transpacific movements, and Asian-American populations. By focusing on research in two distinct clusters – social and cultural research and political economy trends across the Pacific – CTS supports the study of the Pacific Rim in its…
The USC Dornsife Center for the Premodern World provides space and resources for the study of earliest historical eras up to the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern world. Through interdisciplinary research, seminars, public lectures, and a special collaboration to increase access to historical collections, the Center for the Premodern…
The USC Dornsife Center for Self-Report Science (CSS) improves our understanding of how people answer questions about themselves and develops innovative methods that provide accurate, reliable, and ecologically valid self-reports. Faculty investigate the range of sampling densities from high frequency self-report data in people’s natural environments using ecological momentary assessment, through daily diaries, day reconstruction…
The Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies is committed to interdisciplinary and transnational collaboration that advances the economic, social, and political well-being of all peoples in the Americas. By connecting with different academic, legal, medical, financial, and social partners, the center team aims to provide a platform for teaching and learning that cultivates collaboration…
The USC Dornsife Center for Islamic Thought, Culture and Practice (CITCAP) promotes scholarly research and community engagement on the relationship between Islam, Muslims, and contemporary society in the East and West. CITCAP brings together the intellectual tradition of Islam, the evolving realities of modern cultural and sociopolitical life, and the challenges and opportunities facing Muslims…
The USC Dornsife Center for Ethnographic Media Arts (CEMA) is a media arts research center focusing on the development of innovative audiovisual work by practice-led researchers working across disciplines at USC. With a fellowship program, workshops, and events with guest artists, CEMA contributes to interdisciplinary approaches to arts-based research at USC
CAFE aims to promote a unified and rigorous interdisciplinary approach to research in finance that cuts across mathematical finance, econometrics and international macroeconomics. It encourages frontier and applied research and facilitates discussion and dissemination of research by organizing seminars and workshops.
CALIS is a legacy outreach project of the School of International Relations dedicated to advancing teaching excellence in social science education.