UC Research Associates

One of CCIS’s chief goals is to establish a comprehensive research network of migration scholars. To this aim, we have developed an extensive group of affiliates, both inside the UC system and externally.

Name	UC Affiliation	Department	Email	Specialty
Abrajano, Marisa	San Diego	Political Science	mabrajano@ucsd.edu	Latino politics in U.S.
Adida, Claire L.	San Diego	Political Science	cadida@ucsd.edu	Comparative Politics; The study of ethnicity and identity, government and non-state provision of public goods, inter-group cooperation and violence, and trust and informal institutions
Al-Delaimy, Wael	San Diego	Family Medicine and Public Health	waldelaimy@ucsd.edu	Effects of Political Injustice on Health and Mental Health
Betts, Julian R.	San Diego	Economics	jbetts@ucsd.edu	Economics of educatioBiessn
Biess, Frank	San Diego	History	fbiess@ucsd.edu	The role of immigrant labor in postwar reconstruction of the "two Germanies"
Brouwer, Kimberly C.	San Diego	Medicine	kbrouwer@ucsd.edu	Spatial and molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases
Chandler, William	San Diego	Political Science	wchandler@ucsd.edu	Immigration policy and the politics of immigration in Germany
Cohen, Shana	San Diego	Education Studies	shanarcohen@ucsd.edu	Research explores the barriers that immigrant families face in accessing early intervention services for their children with an autism spectrum disorder.
Cornelius, Wayne	San Diego	Political Science	wcorneli@ucsd.edu	Immigration policies in North America, Spain, and Japan
El-Tayeb, Fatima	San Diego	Literature	feltayeb@ucsd.edu	19th and 20th Century European history, (Trans)National Identities, African Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnic Minorities in Europe
Erie, Steven	San Diego	Political Science	serie@ucsd.edu	Immigrants and ethnicity in U.S. urban politics
Espiritu, Yen	San Diego	Ethnic Studies	yespiritu@ucsd.edu	Gender, race, transnationalism, Filipino and Vietnamese immigrants in the U.S.
FitzGerald, David	San Diego	Sociology	dfitzger@ucsd.edu	U.S. - Mexican Relations, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
Gutierrez, David	San Diego	History	dggutierrez@ucsd.edu	History of Mexican immigration and relations between immigrants and Mexican Americans
Hajnal, Zoltan L.	San Diego	Political Science	zhajnal@ucsd.edu	Racial and ethnic politics, urban politics, minority representation in direct democracy
Haviland, John B.	San Diego	Anthropology	jhaviland@ucsd.edu	Social life of language, Tzotzil Mayan, Australian languages, Mexico, Australia
Houston, Alan	San Diego	Political Science	ahouston@ucsd.edu	Political theory; history of anti-immigration thought in 18th Century America.
Kousser, Thad	San Diego	Political Science	tkousser@ucsd.edu	Immigrants as a component of the California electorate; immigration as an issue in California politics and government
Lewis, Kevin	San Diego	Sociology	lewis@ucsd.edu	Social networks, Race/Ethnicity
Ojeda, Victoria	San Diego	Global Public Health	vojeda@ucsd.edu	Drug use, HIV/AIDS, and mental health issues among migrants
Pedersen, David	San Diego	Anthropology	dpedersen@ucsd.edu	Transnational migrant life, remittance circulation, Latin America, El Salvador, U.S.
Rauch, James	San Diego	Economics	jrauch@ucsd.edu	International trade through ethnic networks
Ribas, Vanesa	San Diego	Sociology	vribas@ucsd.edu	International migration, race relations, and work.
Strathdee, Steffanie	San Diego	Global Public Health	sstrathdee@ucsd.edu	Impacts of migration on public health in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
Vasquez, Olga	San Diego	Communication	ovasquez@ucsd.edu	Bilingual communication and education in U.S. immigrant communities
Verdicchio, Pasquale	San Diego	Literature	pverdicchio@ucsd.edu	North African immigrants in Italy
Walshok, Mary	San Diego	University Extension	mwalshok@ucsd.edu	Workforce development; cross-border economic cooperation; innovation
Wong, Tom K.	San Diego	Political Science	tomkwong@ucsd.edu	Politics of immigration, citizenship, and migrant illegality
Woodhull, Winifred	San Diego	Literature	wwoodhull@ucsd.edu	North African and Caribbean female immigrants in France
Zilberg, Elana	San Diego	Communication	ezilberg@ucsd.edu	Transnational Salvadoran immigrant youth in Los Angeles and El Salvador; transnational, border, and urban studies; globalization, violence, race and ethnicity
Romero, Robert Chao	Los Angeles	Chicana/o Studies	rcromero@chavez.ucla.edu	chinese immigration and settlement in Mexico, Chinese-Latinos
Yokley, Lorrie Frasure	Los Angeles	Political Science	lfrasure@polisci.ucla.edu	race and ethnic politics, political participation and incorporation, state and local politics
Hernandez, David	Los Angeles	Chicana/o Studies	dhernandez@chavez.ucla.edu	International Migration, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Social Movements, Immigrant Detention and Deportation
Hernandez, Kelly Lytle	Los Angeles	History	hernandez@history.ucla.edu	race, migration, and police and prison systems in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
Motomura, Hiroshi	Los Angeles	School of Law	motomura@law.ucla.edu	Immigration and Citizenship law
Park, Kyeyoung	Los Angeles	Anthropology	kpark@anthro.ucla.edu	political economy, class, gender, race/ethnicity, social justice, cultural transformation, transnationalism/globalization; Korean/Asian Americans
Rodriguez, Michael	Los Angeles	Family Medicine	mrodriguez@mednet.ucla.edu	Intimate partner violence, quality of healthcare for multiethnic populations across the age spectrum and workforce diversity
Santa Ana, Otto	Los Angeles	Chicana/o Studies	otto@ucla.edu	mass media representation of immigrants and immigration in general, network and local news representation, network humor about immigrants as a means of social control
Valenzuela, Abel	Los Angeles	Institute for Research on Labor and Employment	abel@ucla.edu	1) immigration and labor markets, 2) poverty and inequality, and 3) immigrant settlement patterns.
Waldinger, Roger	Los Angeles	Sociology	waldinge@soc.ucla.edu	international migration; race and ethnicity
Zhou, Min	Los Angeles	Sociology/Asia Pacific Center	mzhou@soc.ucla.edu	Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Community , Urban Sociology, Asian Americans
Ponce, Ninez	Los Angeles	Public Health	nponce@ucla.edu	Social disparities in health and health care: multicultural survey research, social penalties in health/health access, and population-based cancer prevention and control studies.
Brundage, David	Santa Cruz	Community Studies	brundage@ucsc.edu	U.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.
McKay, Steve	Santa Cruz	Sociology	smckay@ucsc.edu	Labor and labor markets, political sociology, globalization and social change, migration and racial formation, Southeast Asia.
Rivas, Cecilia M.	Santa Cruz	Latin American and Latino Studies	cmrivas@ucsc.edu	Salvadoran transnationalism; media (Internet, newspapers); migration; globalization; race, ethnicity, and gender; bilingualism; consumption; El Salvador; Central America
Zavella, Patricia	Santa Cruz	Latin American and Latino Studies	zavella@ucsc.edu	Chicana/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.
Lien, Pei-Te	Santa Barbara	Political Science	plien@polsci.ucsb.edu	Transnational politics of Asian Americans, the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and nativity in political behavior, both of the elites and the mass
Lopez-Carr, David	Santa Barbara	Geography	carr@geog.ucsb.edu	Human dimensions of global environmental change, land use/cover change, international and internal migration, fertility, health, rural poverty and development, Latin America
Palerm, Juan Vicente	Santa Barbara	Anthropology	palerm@anth.ucsb.edu	Development, peasant studies, Chicano studies and migration; Mediterranean Europe, Mexico and US Southwest
Park, John S.W.	Santa Barbara	Asian American Studies	jswpark@asamst.ucsb.edu	immigration law and policy, race theory, political theory and public law
Pinedo-Turnovsky, Carolyn	Santa Barbara	Sociology	cturnovsky@soc.ucsb.edu	Race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, immigration studies, and ethnography.
Spickard, Paul	Santa Barbara	History	spickard@history.ucsb.edu	Migration 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
Walsh, Casey	Santa Barbara	Anthropology	walsh@anth.ucsb.edu	Political Economy, Commodities, Water, Borderlands, Infrastructures
Chang, Edward	Riverside	Ethnic Studies	edch@ucr.edu	Korean American, Korean diaspora, Korean-African American Relations, Korean-Latino relations, and Race Relations
Ossman, Susan	Riverside	Anthropology	susan.ossman@ucr.edu	emerging 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.
Pyke, Karen	Riverside	Sociology	karen.pyke@ucr.edu	1.5 and 2nd generation Asian Americans, Gender, Race & Ethnicity, Internalized Oppression, Critical Race Feminist Theory, Power, Identities, Families, Qualitative and Interpretive Methods
Ramakrishnan, Karthick	Riverside	Political Science	karthick.ramakrishnan@ucr.edu	Immigration and race/ethnicity, civic engagement, public policy
Sorensen, Todd	Riverside	Economics	todd.sorensen@ucr.edu	Labor market effects of immigration, Immigrant assimilation, Labor market adjustments of natives to immigration
DeLugan, Robin Maria	Merced	School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts	rdelugan@ucmerced.edu	nation-state formation, national belonging, race-ethnicity-nation, citizenship, social memory, migration, diaspora, transnationalism, indigenous migration from Latin America to the US, El Salvador, California
Bean, Frank	Irvine	Sociology	fbean@uci.edu	Demography, Racial & Ethnic Relations, Economic Sociology, Family
Bernal, Victoria	Irvine	Anthropology	vbernal@uci.edu	Feminist theory, gender, civil society,globalization,cyberspace, transnationalism,the Islamic revival, peasants, labor migration, Africa, Muslim societies
Brown, Susan K.	Irvine	Sociology	skbrown@uci.edu	Immigrant incorporation, urban sociology, educational inequality
Calavita, Kitty	Irvine	Criminology, Law & Society	kccalavi@uci.edu	sociology of law, criminology, social deviance, and inequality
Chacon, Jennifer	Los Angeles	School of Law	chacon@law.ucla.edu	Immigration law, constitutional law and criminal law and procedure
Chavez, Leo	Irvine	Anthropology	lchavez@uci.edu	Latin America, medical anthropology, transnational communities
Chen, Yong	Irvine	History	y3chen@uci.edu	Asian-American history, Late 19th & 20th Century, American social & cultural history, U.S. immigration history, transpacific history, history of food.
Coutin, Susan	Irvine	Criminology, Law & Society; Anthropology	scoutin@uci.edu	law, culture, human rights, citizenship, political activism, Central America
Desipio, Louis	Irvine	Political Science	ldesipio@uci.edu	Ethnic Politics, Latino Politics, naturalization, U.S. electoral politics
Feliciano, Cynthia	Irvine	Chicano/Latino Studies	felician@uci.edu	Race and Ethnicity, Education, Immigration, Inequality
Goodman, Sara Wallace	Irvine	Political Science	s.goodman@uci.edu	Citizenship in Europe, immigration policy, immigrant integration
James, Winston	Irvine	History	wjames@uci.edu	Caribbean, African-American, African Diaspora, Europe
Lee, Jennifer	Irvine	Sociology	jenlee@uci.edu	Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, Social Inequality, Culture, Education, Asian American Studies
Millward, Jessica	Irvine	History	millward@uci.edu	African American History, the African Diaspora, Gender and Women, Law and Society
Rosas, Ana Elizabeth	Irvine	Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies	arosas1@uci.edu	Chicana/o History, Comparative Immigration, Race, Ethnic, and Gender Studies, and Oral History
Ruiz, Vicki	Irvine	History	vruiz@uci.edu	Latina history, labor studies, immigration history, U.S. West
Rumbaut, Ruben	Irvine	Sociology	rrumbaut@uci.edu	Second generation, intergenerational mobility, assimilation, criminality, bilingualism, language loss, ethnic identity, citzenship, health and mortality, education, policy
Sadiq, Kamal	Irvine	Political Science	kamal@uci.edu	Southeast Asia, India, politics of immigration in Asia, ethnic conflict, and politics of South Asia
Vo, Linda	Irvine	Asian American Studies	volt@uci.edu	Asian American studies; race and ethnic relations; immigration theory; gender relations; social stratification; and community and urban sociology
Guarnizo, Luis	Davis	Human Ecology	leguarnizo@ucdavis.edu	Economic Sociology, entrepreneurs, comparative international development, citizenship
Hamilton, Erin	Davis	Sociology	erhamilton@ucdavis.edu	International migration, Mexico, social demography, health, gender, urbanization, geography
Haynes, Bruce	Davis	Sociology	bdhaynes@ucdavis.edu	Race & ethnicity, urban studies, community studies
Hing, Bill	Davis	School of Law	bhing@ucdavis.edu	Immigration Policy, Race Relations, Public Interest Law, Asian American Studies
Johnson, Kevin	Davis	Law	krjohnson@ucdavis.edu	Immigration Law and policy; race; civil rights
Kyle, David	Davis	Sociology	djkyle@ucdavis.edu	Ethnicity, economic sociology, law and society, global comparative sociology
Money, Jeannette	Davis	Political Science	jnmoney@ucdavis.edu	Electoral participation; political geography; immigration control
Peri, Giovanni	Davis	Economics	gperi@ucdavis.edu	International Migrations, Labor Markets, Economic Productivity, Trade
Smith, Michael Peter	Davis	Human & Community Development	mpsmith@ucdavis.edu	Transnationalism; global migration and citizenship; globalization and urban development; racial and ethnic formation
Smith, James	Davis	School of Law	jfsmith@ucdavis.edu	Immigration detention, deportation, criminalization, comparative immigration policies and migration of marginalized populations in Latin America, particularly Mexico.
Bedolla, Lisa Garcia	Berkeley	Graduate School of Education/Politicial Science	lgarciab@berkeley.edu	How marginalization and inequality structure the political and educational opportunities available to members of ethnoracial groups, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of race, class, and gender
Bloemraad, Irene	Berkeley	Sociology	bloemr@berkeley.edu	Immigration, political sociology, race & ethnicity, social movements, nationalism, research methods, Canada
Choy, Catherine Ceniza	Berkeley	Ethnic Studies	ceniza@berkeley.edu	Asian American history, Philippine/Filipino American studies, contemporary U.S. immigration, international migration of nurses, transnational adoption
Fox, Cybelle	Berkeley	Sociology	cfox@berkeley.edu	Race and Ethnic Relations, American Welfare State, Immigration, Historical Sociology, and Political Sociology
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano	Berkeley	Ethnic Studies	englenn@berkeley.edu	citizenship, immigration, intersections of race and gender, care labor, colorism
Guendelman, Sylvia	Berkeley	Public Health	sylviag@berkeley.edu	Reproductive health, access to healthcare, health along US-Mex Border, health issues of working women, obesity
Hirschkind, Charles	Berkeley	Anthropology	chirschk@berkeley.edu	Religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the Middle East, North America, and Europe
Holmes, Seth	Berkeley	School of Public Health	sethmholmes@berkeley.edu	Population health with focus on health disparities, social determinants of health, and global health
Jastram, Kate	Berkeley	Law	kjastram@berkeley.edu	Refugee, migration, human rights law
Liu, Mao-Mei	Berkeley	Sociology	Mao-Mei_Liu@Berkeley.edu	Migration, social demography, sociology of families
Um, Khatharya	Berkeley	Ethnic Studies	umk@berkeley.edu	Southeast Asia, refugees, transnational and diaspora studies, transnational civil society, human security, health and education
Fee, Molly	Los Angeles	Sociology	mfee@ucla.edu	Political sociology, international migration, and forced migration
Carter, Susan	Riverside	Economics	susan.carter@ucr.edu	Economic History of the Labor Market. History of the Chinese Restaurant in America
Chao, Ruth K.	Riverside	Psychology		Effect of parental involvement in school on adolescents’ school achievement and behavioral and psychological adjustment among Chinese, Filipino, and Mexican immigrants
Riley, Alicia	San Francisco	Epidemiology/Sociology	alicia.riley@ucsf.edu	Cross-contextual research on health inequities, migration and aging, U.S.-Mexico border health
Faier, Lieba	Los Angeles	Geography	lfaier@geog.ucla.edu	Cultural and spatial theory, feminist thought, ethnography, political economy, weather and natural resources, and relations among Japan, Southeast Asia, and the United States
Gurowitz, Amy	Berkeley	Political Science	gurowitz@berkeley.edu	Questions of state and national identity; International norms and immigrant rights; Ethics and immigration/citizenship
Hernandez-Leon, Ruben	Los Angeles	Sociology	rubenhl@soc.ucla.edu	International migration and immigration, border and diaspora studies, Mexico, Latin America
Holston, James	Berkeley	Anthropology	jholston@berkeley.edu	Examines the worldwide insurgence of democratic citizenships in the context of global urbanization. Three considerations frame this work: those of theme, method, and critique
Balloffet, Lily Pearl	Santa Cruz	Latin American & Latino Studies	lballoff@ucsc.edu	Migration and displacement; mobilities; modern Latin American history; Southern Cone; Argentina; modern Middle East; global south networks; spatial history; inter-American relations.