
Alexandra Graddy-Reed
Associate Professor
Selected as an entrepreneurship policy fellow by the Association For Public Policy Analysis & Management.
Promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Public Policy.

Dana Goldman
Dean, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy; C. Erwin & Ione L. Piper Chair;Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics;
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Pharmacy, and Economics
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Pharmacy, and Economics
Named to the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2022 Class of Academy Fellows.

Genevieve Giuliano
Distinguished Professor
Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government
Elected a fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), which globally recognizes her as a regional scientist with outstanding research credentials.
In February 2023, she was named a USC Distinguished Professor, among the university’s highest academic honors.

Adam Rose
Professor (Research)
Selected as a fellow by the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) for substantial achievement in science or public policy relating to risk analysis.
Received the Best Border Paper Award, presented at the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST) .
Appointed Senior Editorial Board member of Energies.

Jeffery A. Jenkins
Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and LawMaria B. Crutcher Professor of Citizenship and Democratic Values; Director, PIPE Collaborative
Received the V.O. Key Award from the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) for his book “Congress and the First Civil Rights Era.”

Erroll G. Southers
Professor of the Practice in National and Homeland SecurityAssociate Senior Vice President, Safety and Risk Assurance
Appointed to the California Commission on the State of Hate by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Honored by the Anti-Defamation League with the Helene and Joseph Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate, which recognizes law enforcement professionals and volunteers who model innovative ways to combat hate and extremism.
Named the new president of the Los Angeles Commission that oversees LAPD on August 18, 2023.

Julie M. Zissimopoulos
ProfessorCo-Director, Aging and Cognition Program, USC Schaeffer Center
Promoted to the rank of professor. This is a remarkable academic achievement and a testament to her scholarship, leadership, teaching, and mentoring. Zissimopoulos’ national reputation in research on Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias brings together an understanding of aging and its links to health, economic and demographic status, and the implications for clinical practice and public policy.

Rosalie Pacula
ProfessorElizabeth Garrett Endowed Chair in Health Policy, Economics, and Law
Will serve as the new co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, which sits under the Population Health Board within NASEM.

William G. Resh
Associate ProfessorC.C. Crawford Professor in Management and Performance
Invited to the talk “Roundtable on the President’s Management Agenda as part of the ‘Year of Evidence Action,'” McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, November 16, 2022.
Voted by the Public Management Research Association’s (PMRA) membership to serve on the Board of Directors for the next 4 years.
Named to the Advisory Board for the Institute for Public Procurement’s Center for the Advancement of Research and Excellence, August 2023.
Named to the Strategic Advisory Board of Arizona State University’s Center for Organizational Research and Design (CORD) for a four-year term, August 2023.

Deborah J. Natoli
Professor (Teaching)
Awarded the 2022-2023 USC Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant from the Office of the Provost for her course proposal, “The Art and Science of Leadership.”

Christian Grose
Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Public PolicyAcademic Director, USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy
Won the Joseph L. Bernd Award for the best article published in the Journal of Politics in the most recent academic year. The Bernd award was for “Social Lobbying,” published in the Journal of Politics and co-authored with Pamela Lopez, Sara Sadhwani, and Antoine Yoshinaka.
Selected to be the 2023 Chair of the Midwest Political Science Association program.

Julie Marsh
Professor of Education Policy and Public Policy
Included in the RHSU Edu-Scholar’s 2023 public influencers list, which recognizes university-based scholars in the United States who did the most in the previous year to shape educational practice and policy.

Lois M. Takahashi
Professor (Teaching)Houston I. Flournoy Professor of State GovernmentCoordinator, Master of Public Administration – Sacramento
Selected by the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER) as one of the best reviewers from among the JPER editorial board members and non-editorial board members. The editors look at the number of reviews submitted within the past year, combined with the timeliness and quality of the reviews.

Eric Heikkila
Professor
Assumed the position of President-elect of the Western Regional Science Association at the WRSA annual conference in February 2023.
Will spend one year as the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he will be affiliated with a research group focusing on computational social sciences.

Moussa Diop
Associate Professor
Promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Real Estate Development.

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
ProfessorJames Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning
Won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Chosen from a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2,500 applicants, Currid-Halkett is one of 171 successful applicants.

Karen Mulligan
Assistant Professor (Research)
Awarded the PhRMA Foundation Mid-Career Faculty Grant in Value Assessment Health Outcomes Research.

Elizabeth Graddy
ProfessorJeffrey J. Miller Chair in Government, Business, and the Economy
In recognition of her career-long commitment to faculty mentorship at the USC Price School and across the university, USC President Carol Folt established a faculty mentoring award in her name.

LaVonna B. Lewis
Professor (Teaching)Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Promoted to serve as Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the USC Price School.

Geoff Boeing
Assistant Professor
With collaborators, won the National Planning Institute of Australia Award for Planning Research Excellence for their project “Benchmarking Healthy and Sustainable Cities Globally.”

Danyao Li
Assistant Professor
Won the Public Management Research Association (PMRA) 2023 Best Dissertation Award for “Bureaucratic Representation, Individual Decision Making and Organizational Performance in Law Enforcement.”