INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Tools, Clinics, Platforms: The Power of Debt

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Hannah C. Appel, Anthropology, UCLA

Debt and Social Crisis in a U.S. Colony

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César J. Ayala, Sociology, UCLA

UCLA Prison Education Program

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Bryonn Bain, African American Studies, UCLA

What It Iz and the Beyond Bars Conference

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Bryonn Bain, African American Studies, UCLA

Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime

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Felipe Gonçalves, Economics, Emily Weisburst, Public Policy, UCLA

Evidence of Expulsion: Documenting Eviction Rates for Research and Advocacy

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Ashley Gromis, Sociology, Michael C. Lens, Urban Planning, and Kyle Nelson, Sociology, UCLA

‘Pintela, Que Yo Se La Coloreo’

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Ian W. Holloway, Social Welfare, UCLA, Daniela Maldonado Salamanca, Red Comunitaria Trans, and Amy E. Ritterbusch, Social Welfare, UCLA

UC Extreme Sentencing Project

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Grace K. Hong, Gender Studies & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Land, Livelihoods and Displacement in Indonesia

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Helga M. Leitner and Eric S. Sheppard, Geography, UCLA

Community Experiences on Million-Dollar Blocks in Los Angeles

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Kelly Lytle Hernández, African American Studies & History, UCLA

COVID-19 and Renter Distress: Evidence from Los Angeles

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Michael Manville, Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens, Urban Planning, UCLA

Protest and Progress: South LA Since the Kerner Report

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Paul M. Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis

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Paul Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Divestment, Reparations, and the Abolition University

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SA Smythe, Gender Studies & African American Studies, UCLA

Shared Horizons: Practices and Poetics of Transatlantic Abolition

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SA Smythe, University of Toronto (formerly at UCLA) and Vanessa E. Thompson, Queen’s University

YOU ARE HERE – a homebound travelogue

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Marike Splint, Theater, Film and Television, UCLA

Sanctuary Spaces and Embodied Sovereignty: Dancing Ocean Dreams Through Prison Walls

Tria Blu Wakpa, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA

Carceral Liberation? A Native American Prison Art Show

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Tria Blu Wakpa, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA

INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Evidence of Expulsion: Documenting Eviction Rates for Research and Advocacy

/
Ashley Gromis, Sociology, Michael C. Lens, Urban Planning, and Kyle Nelson, Sociology, UCLA

Land, Livelihoods and Displacement in Indonesia

/
Helga M. Leitner and Eric S. Sheppard, Geography, UCLA

COVID-19 and Renter Distress: Evidence from Los Angeles

/
Michael Manville, Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens, Urban Planning, UCLA

Protest and Progress: South LA Since the Kerner Report

/
Paul M. Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis

/
Paul Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

YOU ARE HERE – a homebound travelogue

/
Marike Splint, Theater, Film and Television, UCLA

INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Tools, Clinics, Platforms: The Power of Debt

/
Hannah C. Appel, Anthropology, UCLA

Debt and Social Crisis in a U.S. Colony

/
César J. Ayala, Sociology, UCLA

COVID-19 and Renter Distress: Evidence from Los Angeles

/
Michael Manville, Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens, Urban Planning, UCLA

INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

UCLA Prison Education Program

/
Bryonn Bain, African American Studies, UCLA

What It Iz and the Beyond Bars Conference

/
Bryonn Bain, African American Studies, UCLA

Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime

/
Felipe Gonçalves, Economics, Emily Weisburst, Public Policy, UCLA

‘Pintela, Que Yo Se La Coloreo’

/
Ian W. Holloway, Social Welfare, UCLA, Daniela Maldonado Salamanca, Red Comunitaria Trans, and Amy E. Ritterbusch, Social Welfare, UCLA

UC Extreme Sentencing Project

/
Grace K. Hong, Gender Studies & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Community Experiences on Million-Dollar Blocks in Los Angeles

/
Kelly Lytle Hernández, African American Studies & History, UCLA

Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis

/
Paul Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Divestment, Reparations, and the Abolition University

/
SA Smythe, Gender Studies & African American Studies, UCLA

Shared Horizons: Practices and Poetics of Transatlantic Abolition

/
SA Smythe, University of Toronto (formerly at UCLA) and Vanessa E. Thompson, Queen’s University

Sanctuary Spaces and Embodied Sovereignty: Dancing Ocean Dreams Through Prison Walls

Tria Blu Wakpa, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA

Carceral Liberation? A Native American Prison Art Show

/
Tria Blu Wakpa, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA

INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Divestment, Reparations, and the Abolition University

/
SA Smythe, Gender Studies & African American Studies, UCLA

Carceral Liberation? A Native American Prison Art Show

/
Tria Blu Wakpa, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA