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University of California Research Associates

LastFirstEmailCampusDepartmentResearch Interests
BloemraadIrenebloemr@berkeley.eduBerkeleySociologypolitical sociology, race & ethnicity, social movements, nationalism, canada
Ceniza ChoyCatherineceniza@berkeley.eduBerkeleyEthnic StudiesAsian American history, Philippine/Filipino American studies, contemporary U.S. immigration, international migration of nurses, transnational adoption
FoxCybellecfox@berkeley.eduBerkeleySociologyrace & ethnic relations, American welfare state, immigration, health policy, public opinion, historical sociology, political sociology
GlennEvelyn Nakanoenglenn@berkeley.eduBerkeleyEthnic Studiescitizenship, immigration, intersections of race and gender, care labor, colorism
GuendelmanSylviasylviag@berkeley.eduBerkeleyPublic HealthReproductive health, access to healthcare, health along US-Mex Border, health issues of working women, obesity
HirschkindCharleschirschk@berkeley.eduBerkeleyAnthropologyMuslim immigrants; religion; Europe & Spain;
JastramKatekjastram@law.berkeley.eduBerkeleyLaw
UmKhatharyaumk@berkeley.eduBerkeleyEthnic StudiesSoutheast Asia, refugees, transnational and diaspora studies, transnational civil society, human security, health and education
GuarnizoLuisleguarnizo@ucdavis.eduDavisHuman & Community DevelopmentEconomic Sociology, entrepreneurs, comparative international development, citizenship
HamiltonErinerhamilton@ucdavis.eduDavisSociologyInternational migration, Mexico, social demography, health, gender, urbanization, geography
HaynesBrucebdhaynes @ ucdavis.eduDavisSociologyRace & ethnicity, urban studies, community studies
HingBillbhing@ucdavis.eduDavisSchool of LawImmigration Policy, Race Relations, Public Interest Law, Asian American Studies
JohnsonKevinkrjohnson@ucdavis.eduDavisLawImmigration Law and policy; race; civil rights
KyleDaviddjkyle @ ucdavis.eduDavisSociologyEthnicity, economic sociology, law and society, global comparative sociology
MoneyJeannettejnmoney@ucdavis.eduDavisPolitical ScienceElectoral participation; political geography; immigration control
OkamotoDinadgokamoto@ucdavis.eduDavisSociologycivic and political incorporation of immigrants, panethnicity and ethnic identity, adaptation of immigrant and second-generation youth
PeriGiovannigperi@ucdavis.eduDavisEconomicsInternational Migrations, Labor Markets, Economic Productivity, Trade
SmithMichael Petermpsmith@ucdavis.eduDavisHuman & Community DevelopmentTransnationalism; global migration and citizenship; globalization and urban development; racial and ethnic formation
SmithJamesjfsmith@ucdavis.eduDavisSchool of LawImmigration detention, deportation, criminalization, comparative immigration policies and migration of marginalized populations in Latin America, particularly Mexico.
BeanFrankfbean@uci.eduIrvineSociology Demography, Racial & Ethnic Relations, Economic Sociology, Family
BernalVictoriavbernal@uci.eduIrvineAnthropologygender, nationalism, transnationalism, development, cyberspace, and Islam.
BrownSusan K.skbrown@uci.eduIrvineSociologyImmigrant incorporation, urban sociology, educational inequality
CalavitaKittykccalavi@uci.eduIrvineCriminology, Law & Societysociology of law, criminology, social deviance, and inequality
ChaconJenniferjchacon@law.uci.eduIrvineSchool of LawCriminalization of migration; effects of immigration enforcement on local policing norms and procedures; prosecutions of immigration crimes; human trafficking.
ChavezLeolchavez@uci.eduIrvineAnthropologyLatin America, medical anthropology, transnational communities,
ChenYongy3chen@uci.eduIrvineHistoryAsian-American history, Late 19th & 20th Century, American social & cultural history, U.S. immigration history, transpacific history, history of food.
CoutinSusanscoutin@uci.eduIrvineCriminology, Law & Society; Anthropologylaw, culture, human rights, citizenship, political activism, Central America
DesipioLouisldesipio@uci.eduIrvinePolitical ScienceEthnic Politics, Latino Politics, naturalization, U.S. electoral politics
FelicianoCynthiafelician@uci.eduIrvineChicano/Latino StudiesRace and Ethnicity, Education, Immigration, Inequality
GoodmanSara Wallaces.goodman@uci.eduIrvinePolitical ScienceCitizenship in Europe, immigration policy, immigrant integration
JamesWinstonwjames@uci.eduIrvineHistoryCaribbean, African-American, African Diaspora, Europe
LeeJenniferjenlee@uci.eduIrvineSociologyRace/Ethnicity, Social Inequality, Asian American Studies
MazzolariFrancescafmazzola@uci.eduIrvineEconomicswelfare benefits, Economics of Immigration, Wage Inequality
MillwardJessicamillward@uci.eduIrvineHistoryAfrican American History, the African Diaspora, Gender and Women, Law and Society
RosasAna Elizabetharosas1@uci.eduIrvineChicana/o-Latina/o StudiesChicana/o History, Comparative Immigration, Race, Ethnic, and Gender Studies, and Oral History
RuizVickivruiz@uci.eduIrvineHistoryLatina history, labor studies, immigration history, U.S. West+
RumbautRubenrrumbaut@uci.eduIrvineSociologySecond generation, intergenerational mobility, assimilation, criminality, bilingualism, language loss, ethnic identity, citzenship, health and mortality, education, policy
SadiqKamalkamal@uci.eduIrvinePolitical ScienceSoutheast Asia, India, politics of immigration in Asia, ethnic conflict, and politics of South Asia
VoLindavolt@uci.eduIrvineAsian American StudiesAsian American studies; race and ethnic relations; immigration theory; gender relations; social stratification; and community and urban sociology
DeLuganRobin Mariardelugan@ucmerced.eduMercedSchool of Social Sciences, Humanities and Artsnation-state formation, national belonging, race-ethnicity-nation, citizenship, social memory, migration, diaspora, transnationalism, indigenous migration from Latin America to the US, El Salvador, California
ChangEdwardedch@ucr.eduRiversideEthnic StudiesKorean American, Korean diaspora, Korean-African American Relations, Korean-Latino relations, and Race Relations
OssmanSusansusan.ossman@ucr.eduRiversideAnthropologyemerging forms of transnational social life and political engagement from the perspective of serial migrants, people who have lived in several countries. North Africa, Europe, Middle East.
PykeKarenkaren.pyke@ucr.eduRiversideSociology1.5 and 2nd generation Asian Americans, Gender, Race & Ethnicity, Internalized Oppression, Critical Race Feminist Theory, Power, Identities, Families, Qualitative and Interpretive Methods
RamakrishnanKarthickkarthick.ramakrishnan@ucr.eduRiversidePolitical ScienceImmigration and race/ethnicity, civic engagement, public policy
SorensenToddtodd.sorensen@ucr.eduRiversideEconomicsLabor market effects of immigration, Immigrant assimilation, Labor market adjustments of natives to immigration
LienPei-Teplien@polsci.ucsb.eduSanta BarbaraPolitical ScienceTransnational politics of Asian Americans, the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and nativity in political behavior, both of the elites and the mass
Lopez-CarrDavidcarr@geog.ucsb.eduSanta BarbaraGeographyHuman dimensions of global environmental change, land use/cover change, international and internal migration, fertility, health, rural poverty and development, Latin America
PalermJuan Vicentepalerm@anth.ucsb.eduSanta BarbaraAnthropologyrural development, peasant economies and societies, migration, labor and agriculture, community studies, family studies, history of ethnological theory, political economy and Marxism. 
ParkJohn S.W.jswpark@asamst.ucsb.eduSanta BarbaraAsian American Studiesimmigration law and policy, race theory, political theory and public law
Pinedo-TurnovskyCarolyncturnovsky@soc.ucsb.eduSanta BarbaraSociologyRace and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, immigration studies, and ethnography.
SpickardPaulspickard@history.ucsb.eduSanta BarbaraHistoryMigration and Identity in United States History and in Modern World History, Race and Ethnicity in the United States and in Comparative International Perspective, Asian American History, Culture, Religion, Gender, and Family Life, History and Peoples of the Pacific, Race, Migration and Membership in Germany
WalshCaseywalsh@anth.ucsb.eduSanta BarbaraAnthropologyPolitical Economy, Commodities, Water, Borderlands, Infrastructures
BrundageDavidbrundage@ucsc.eduSanta CruzCommunity StudiesU.S. immigration and working-class history; Irish immigration to the U.S.; history of long-distance nationalism; history of U.S. social movements placed in transnational context.
GleesonShannonsgleeson@ucsc.eduSanta CruzLatin American and Latino StudiesMigrant populations, the effects of documentation status, labor rights, civic engagement, inequality & stratification, political sociology, law & society, mixed methods & comparative approaches
JonasSusannesjonas@ucsc.eduSanta CruzLatin American & Latino StudiesGuatemalan/Central American migration, regional perspectives, transregional advocacy networks, San Francisco area as context, immigration policy critique, citizenship
McKayStevesmckay@ucsc.eduSanta CruzSociologyLabor and labor markets, political sociology, globalization and social change, migration and racial formation, Southeast Asia.
RivasCecilia M.cmrivas@ucsc.eduSanta CruzLatin American and Latino StudiesSalvadoran transnationalism; media (Internet, newspapers); migration; globalization; race, ethnicity, and gender; bilingualism; consumption; El Salvador; Central America
ZavellaPatriciazavella@ucsc.eduSanta CruzLatin American & Latino StudiesChicana/o-Latina/o studies, women's work and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, and transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital.
Chao RomeroRobertrcromero@chavez.ucla.eduUCLAChicana & Chicano Studieschinese immigration and settlement in Mexico, Chinese-Latinos,
FavellAdrianafavell@soc.ucla.eduUCLASociologyMigration, Urban Sociology, Comparative & Global Sociology, Theory
Frasure YokleyLorrielfrasure@polisci.ucla.eduUCLAPolitical Sciencerace and ethnic politics, political participation and incorporation, state and local politics
HernándezDaviddhernandez@chavez.ucla.eduUCLAChicana and Chicano StudiesInternational Migration, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Social Movements, Immigrant Detention and Deportation
Hernandez-LeonRubenrubenhl@soc.ucla.eduUCLASociologyInternational migration and immigration, border and diaspora studies, Mexico, Latin America.
Lytle HernandezKellyhernandez@history.ucla.eduUCLAHistoryrace, migration, and police and prison systems in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
MotomuraHiroshimotomura@law.ucla.eduUCLASchool of LawImmigration and Citizenship law,
ParkKyeyoungkpark@anthro.ucla.eduUCLAAnthropologypolitical economy, class, gender, race/ethnicity, social justice, cultural transformation, transnationalism/globalization; Korean/Asian Americans,
Santa AnaOttootto@ucla.eduUCLAChicana/o Studiesmass media representation of immigrants and immigration in general, network and local news representation, network humor about immigrants as a means of social control
ValenzuelaAbelabel@ucla.eduUCLAChicana & Chicano Studies1) immigration and labor markets, 2) poverty and inequality, and 3) immigrant settlement patterns. 
WaldingerRogerwaldinge@soc.ucla.eduUCLASociologyinternational migration; race and ethnicity
ZhouMinmzhou@soc.ucla.eduUCLASociologyRace/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Community , Urban Sociology, Asian Americans