USC Associates
Endowed Faculty Positions

In the late 1970s, the USC Associates initiated an endowment program to fund a series of chairs and professorships at the University of Southern California. Thanks to this important effort, USC now boasts eight endowed faculty positions that bear the Associates name:

• USC Associates Chair in Humanities (established 1979)
  USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences


• USC Associates/Thomas H. Brem Chair in Medicine (established 1979)
  Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
  Chair holder: Neil Kaplowitz


• USC Associates Chair in the Graduate School of Business Administration (established 1980)
  USC Marshall School of Business


• USC Associates Assistant Professorship in Dentistry (established 1982)
  USC School of Dentistry
  Professorship holder: Michael L. Paine


• USC Accounting Associates Professorship in Accounting (established 1987)
  USC Leventhal School of Accounting
  Professorship holder: Sarah E. Bonner


• USC Associates Professorship in Art History (established 1992)
  USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences


• USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences (established 1993)
  USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  Chair holder: Michael Waterman


• USC Associates Chair in Social Science (established 1993)
  USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  Chair holder: Mark Kann

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