Animation Faculty List
Thomas R. Sito
Division of Animation and Digital Arts
Professor of Cinematic Arts
sito@usc.edu
Craig Barron
Part-Time Lecturer
Maurice Bastian
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Musa Brooker
Part-Time Lecturer
Ramiro Alonso Cazaux
Part-Time Lecturer
Teresa Cheng
Chair, John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts
Professor of Cinematic Arts
tcheng@cinema.usc.edu
Peter Chung
Part-Time Lecturer
Frederic Durand
Part Time Lecturer
Michael Fink
Kortschak Family Endowed Division Chair in Film and Television Production
Georges Méliès Endowed Chair in Visual Effects
mfink@cinema.usc.edu
Eric Goldberg
Part-Time Lecturer
Richard Goldsmith
Part-Time Lecturer
Eric Hanson
Associate Professor of Cinematic Practice
ehanson@cinema.usc.edu
Caroline Hu
Part-Time Lecturer
Morgan Land
Part-Time Lecturer
Everett Lewis
Associate Professor
Track Head, Directing
elewis@usc.edu
John Mahoney
Part-Time Lecturer
Lisa Mann
Associate Professor of Practice of Cinematic Arts
Exhibitions Director of Hench-DADA
emann@usc.edu
Maks Naporowski
Instructor of Cinema Practice
Robert Nederhorst
Part-Time Lecturer
Christine Panushka
Professor
Media Arts + Practice Division, Ph.D. Advisor
panushka@usc.edu
Michael Patterson
Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts
patte1@usc.edu
Candace Reckinger
Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts
Director of the Jaunt Cinematic VR Lab
creckinger@cinema.usc.edu
Kathy Smith
Professor of Cinematic Arts
Media Arts + Practice Division, Ph.D. Advisor
kates@usc.edu
Sheila Sofian
Professor of Cinematic Arts
ssofian@cinema.usc.edu
Bethany Rae Sparks
Part Time Lecturer
Marcel E. Valcarce
Part-Time Lecturer
marcel@inmotionstudios.com
Shelly A. Wattenbarger
Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts
wattenba@usc.edu
Richard A. Weinberg
Research Professor
Charles S. Swartz Endowed Chair in Entertainment Technology
weinberg@cinema.usc.edu
David Zaboski
Adjunct Assistant Professor