Presidential Fellows

CAMERON SMITH-2014 Scholar
major & degree: Experimental Psychology, Ph.D.
hometown: Rome, GA
contact: camsmith1992@gmail.com
What brought you to USC?: The opportunity to work with my graduate
advisor and this fellowship.
What do you hope to accomplish while you pursue your degree?: Be
actively engaged in publishing and presenting research, as well as
teaching.
Fun fact about yourself: I have a veritable zoo’s worth of animals: four cats, a dog, two guinea pigs,
and a 10 gallon fish tank.
Research Key Words: psycholinguistics, spatial attention, auditory attention, visual attention, reference
tracking, spatial indexing, discourse comprehension
MADELINE STEINER-2015 Scholar
major & degree: History, Ph.D.
hometown: Dallas, TX
contact: Steinem@email.sc.edu
What brought you to USC?: I was drawn to USC after learning about
the work of my now-advisor, Dr. Lauren Sklaroff. Her work on race and
popular culture in the United States seemed like exactly the type of
history I was interested in writing.
What do you hope to accomplish while you pursue your degree?: As I
pursue my degree, I hope to continue to develop my skills as a researcher and writer while looking for
creative ways to analyze the past.
Fun fact about yourself: While people know that I double majored in musical theatre in undergrad,
many don’t know that I also took classes at a circus school and got pretty good at aerial silks.
Research Key Words: history, popular culture, performing arts, entertainment, travel, race, railroad,
circus, minstrelsy, media
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