Finding aid for the USC Southern California Studies Center (SC2) records 0371
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USC Libraries Special Collections
2022 March
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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: USC Southern California Studies Center (SC2) records
Creator:
University of Southern California. Southern California Studies Center
Creator:
Dear, M. J. (Michael J.)
Identifier/Call Number: 0371
Physical Description:
34.875 Linear Feet
31 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1992-2003
Abstract: This collection consists of research documents, publications, newsletters, media coverage, grant information, and project
proposals related to the University of Southern California's Southern California Study Center (SC2) for the duration of its
existence (1995-2003).
Language of Material:
English.
This collection consists of research documents, publications, newsletters, media coverage, grant information, and project
proposals related to the University of Southern California's Southern California Study Center (SC2) for the duration of its
existence (1995-2003). Materials include information on grants received from the James Irvine Foundation, and various conferences
sponsored by SC2.
The University of Southern California's Southern California Study Center (SC2) was an interdisciplinary center dedicated to
documenting and studying life in Southern California in relation to its regional, national, and international connections.
Much of the work produced by SC2 focused on the urban settings of the greater Los Angeles area and its people, culture, and
socio-geography through its three initiatives: information and research, outreach, and curriculum.
SC2 was closely tied to the Department of Geography, and the School of Policy, Planning and Development within the College
of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California. SC2's academic director was urban geographer Michael
Dear who worked at USC from 1986-2009. Dear described SC2's central purpose was to "describe, explain, monitor and guide the
regional transformations in socio-cultural, political and economic life in Southern California as they evolve through time
and space".
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Box/folder no. or item name], USC Southern California Studies Center (SC2) records, Collection no. 0371, Special Collections,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Professor Michael Dear, the director of the Southern California Studies Center, upon the closing of the center.
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
California, Southern -- History -- Archival resources
Grants and funding -- Archival resources
Research institutes -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
University of Southern California. Southern California Studies Center -- Archives
Box 1, Box 2, Box 3, Box 4, Box 5, Box 6, Box 7, Box 8, Box 9, Box 10, Box 11, Box 12, Box 13, Box 14, Box 15, Box 16, Box 17, Box 18, Box 19, Box 20, Box 21, Box 22, Box 23, Box 24, Box 25, Box 26, Box 27, Box 28, Box 29, Box 30, Box 31
Unprocessed materials