Faculty and Student Projects
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UCLA Faculty Seed Grants 2018–2019
The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy advances radical democracy in an unequal world through research, critical thought, and alliances with social movements and racial justice activism. The Institute invited applications from UCLA faculty for grants to support research related to one of the following themes:
- Housing Justice in Unequal Cities
- Debt and Financial Disobedience
- Policing and Incarceration
Criteria: We sought to support projects in the social sciences, humanities, arts, and design related to the listed research themes. Given the scope and purpose of the Institute, we are especially interested in projects that meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Research developed in partnership with social movements and community-based organizing. We welcome all quantitative and qualitative research and evidence-based methodologies but ask that the research framework explicitly address how university-movement collaborations might be built and sustained. More ambitiously, we are interested in how such collaborations can generate new formats of research, be it the research questions that are posed, or the data that is collected, or how research is distributed and disseminated.
- The Institute’s mandate is to organize knowledge to challenge inequality. We welcome research that advances critical thinking and that can make a decisive conceptual contribution to the topic at hand. We are especially interested in research that can demonstrate how “organizing knowledge” can challenge established academic wisdom, contribute to public debate, or have impact on a policy decision. We welcome projects that express a strong point of view and that dare to think beyond conventional norms.
- The Institute’s work has a global scope. Whether the research is located in a single neighborhood or concerned with translocal networks, we hope to highlight the global forces that might be at work in the processes and struggles at hand. We thus encourage research that has such a critical imagination, be it located in global Los Angeles or elsewhere.
- We ask that the research have a public orientation, i.e. an intent of speaking to public issues and/or addressing audiences that lie beyond the university. With this in mind, we welcome various genres of scholarship, including artistic performance, opinion pieces, creative writing, policy-oriented briefs, and social science peer-reviewed publication.
We require a short project update/summary by April 1, 2019. Projects that were awarded grants must acknowledge the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy in all programs, public information materials, and publications resulting from the grant.
Faculty Seed Grants 2018–2019
Hannah Appel, Anthropology. Tools, Clinics, Platforms: Building Toward a Public Launch
Cesar Ayala, Sociology. Debt and Social Crisis in a U.S. Colony
Marike Splint, Theater, Film and Television. The Biography of a Home.
Alicia Virani, Law. Knowledge is Power: Empower Youth in the Juvenile Justice System Through Popular Education.
Amy Ritterbusch, Social Welfare. ‘Pintela, Que Yo Se La Coloreo’.
UCLA Graduate Student Working Groups 2018–2019
The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy advances radical democracy in an unequal world through research, critical thought, and alliances with social movements and racial justice activism. The Institute continues to support student projects that explore one or more of our research themes:
- Housing Justice in Unequal Cities
- Debt and Financial Disobedience
- Policing and Incarceration
For this award cycle, we again invited students to look at our call to expand the mission of the Institute. These “frontlines” suggest additional themes (e.g. sanctuary cities, voter suppression), which may also be taken up in applications.
Criteria: Students applied for support in one of the following ways:
- Graduate student working groups to undertake a year-long plan of collective work related to one of the research themes and which demonstrates an explicit public orientation. Given the scope and purpose of the Institute, we are especially interested in projects that organize knowledge to challenge inequality, be it by questioning established academic wisdom, or contributing to public debate, or having an impact on a policy decision. Eligibility: Each team must be comprised of at least three graduate students drawn from at least two different UCLA departments. Maximum Award: $1000.
- Registered student groups to develop events or formats of public scholarship that allow distribution and dissemination of work to relevant audiences. We welcome a variety of formats, including the development of curriculum and pedagogy, artistic performance, creative writing, opinion pieces, and social science peer-reviewed publication. Eligibility: Registered graduate student groups, with preference given to Luskin School of Public Affairs groups. Please note that Luskin graduate students must attend a Luskin events training. Maximum Award: $1000.
Graduate Student Working Groups 2018–2019
Travis Bott, Alexis Coopersmith, Joel Herrera, Nihal Kayali, Geography and Sociology. Political Sociology and the Global South.
Lorraine Perales, Samantha Piedra, Social Welfare and Public Policy. Reanalyzing the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977.
Dian Tri Irawaty, Fernanda Jahn-Verri, Jaehyeon (Jay) Park, Geography and Urban Planning. Discussing Landscapes of Property.
UCLA Faculty Seed Grants 2017–2018
Faculty Seed Grants 2017–2018
Paul M. Ong, Urban Planning and Asian American Studies. Protest and Progress: South LA Since the Kerner Report.
Bryonn Bain, African American Studies. What It Iz and the Beyond the Bars Conference.
Hannah Appel, Anthropology. From Particular Injustices to the Systemic Fight: Building the Power of Debtors Unions.
Noah Zatz, Law. Between Prison and Precarity: LA Warehouse Workers and the Probation/Staffing Agency Nexus.
UCLA Graduate Student Working Groups 2017–2018
Graduate Student Working Groups 2017–2018
Christina Chica, Emma Colven, Matias Fernandez, Joel Herrera, Sociology and Geography. Political Sociology and the Global South.
Skye Allmang, Rebecca Crane, Feliz Quinones, Social Welfare, Urban Planning, Education. Resistance through Research: Graduate Student Working Group on Social Justice Research + Activism in the Trump Era.
C. Aujean Lee, Rachel Wells, Silvia Gonzalez, Urban Planning and Social Welfare. Social Protections in the New Administration: Nonprofit Responses Amidst Political Changes.
UCLA Faculty Seed Grants 2016–2017
Faculty Seed Grants 2016–2017
Laura Abrams, Social Welfare. Global Youth Justice: Defining Criminal Responsibility in Law and Practice.
Randall Akee, Public Policy. Income Inequality and Income Mobility for American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Hannah Appel, Anthropology. Who Owes What to Whom? From For-Profit Colleges to Payday Lenders: Next Steps in the Debtors Movement.
Caroline Ford, History. The Paris Housing Crisis and the Campaign for Affordable Housing, 1894-1940.
Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard, Geography. Land, Livelihoods and Displacement in Indonesia.
Michael Lens and Paavo Monkkonen, Urban Planning. Evidence of Expulsion: Documenting Eviction Rates for Research and Advocacy.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, African-American Studies and History. Community Experiences on Million-Dollar Blocks in Los Angeles.
Noah Zatz, Law. The New Debt Peonage: Court-Ordered Community Service in LA County.
UCLA Graduate Student Working Groups 2016–2017
Graduate Student Working Groups 2016–2017
Kenton Card, Matías Fernández, Andrew N. Le, Urban Planning and Sociology. Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group.
Hannah Carlan, Nafis Hasan, Tanya Matthan, Nivedita Nath, Gabriel Locke Suchodolski, Anthropology, History, and Sociology. Welfare Workings: Popular Politics and the Public in Contemporary India.
Eve Bachrach, Gina Charusombat, Amman Desai, Julia Heidelman, Lawrence Lan, Jacklyn Oh, Xochitl Ortiz, Carolyn Vera, and Estefania Zavala Urban Planning and Asian American Studies. Our Hoods, Our Stories: Documenting Displacement in Boyle Heights and Chinatown.
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