INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH
The Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. We are especially interested in research, scholarship, and/or teaching that bring together scholars with pro-democracy advocates and civic organizations to promote research that advances equality across economic, political, and racial divisions. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that has been supported by the Institute from 2016-2026. Learn more about current funding opportunities for faculty research.
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Akee-Randall-Photo-e1553640069759.png
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2016-04-14 15:17:312026-08-21 15:41:24Income Inequality and Income Mobility for American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders || Awarded 2016
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Leitner-Sheppard-PHOTO-e1553642532325.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2016-11-01 16:25:552026-08-21 15:53:03Land, Livelihoods and Displacement in Indonesia || Awarded 2016
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Hernandez-Kelly-Lytle-PHOTO-LANCASTER-e1553640284575.png
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2016-11-26 13:31:242026-08-21 15:51:52Community Experiences on Million-Dollar Blocks in Los Angeles || Awarded 2016
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Abrams-Laura-Photo-2-e1553639956653.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2017-03-14 15:17:312026-08-27 21:15:55Youth Justice in Four Countries: Defining Criminal Responsibility in Law and Practice || Awarded 2017
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Bain-Bryonn-PHOTO-3-e1564603195142.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2017-07-03 12:17:452026-08-27 21:16:43What It Iz and the Beyond Bars Conference || Awarded 2017
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ford-Caroline-PHOTO-2-e1553640575405.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2017-08-26 13:26:222026-08-27 21:17:20The Paris Housing Crisis and the Campaign for Affordable Housing, 1894-1940 || Awarded 2017
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Lens-Monkkonen-PHOTO-e1553641801629.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2017-09-26 16:12:102026-08-27 21:17:49Evidence of Expulsion: Documenting Eviction Rates for Research and Advocacy || Awarded 2017
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/South-Los-Angeles-Since-the-Sixties-IMG-e1553640702687.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2017-09-28 12:06:562026-08-27 21:18:34Protest and Progress: South LA Since the Kerner Report || Awarded 2017
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/F5-Photo.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2017-10-26 16:16:262026-08-27 21:19:08The New Debt Peonage: Court-Ordered Community Service in LA County || Awarded 2017
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Appel-Hannah-PHOTO-1-e1553638675574.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2018-05-21 09:35:062026-08-27 21:19:54Tools, Clinics, Platforms: The Power of Debt || Awarded 2018
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ayala-Cesar-PHOTO-FROM-CADTM-ERIC-TOUSSAINTS-ARTICLE.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2018-06-26 09:51:252026-08-27 21:20:21Debt and Social Crisis in a U.S. Colony || Awarded 2018
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Bain-Bryonn-PHOTO-e1553639628514.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2018-07-02 11:55:552026-08-27 21:20:53UCLA Prison Education Program || Awarded 2018
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ritterbusch-Amy-PHOTO-e1553638722692.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2018-10-04 09:57:522026-08-27 21:21:22‘Pintela, Que Yo Se La Coloreo’ || Awarded 2018
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Zatz-Noah-PHOTO-1-e1553639884575.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2018-12-01 12:13:542026-08-27 21:14:41Between Prison and Precarity: LA Warehouse Workers and the Probation/Staffing Agency Nexus || Awarded 2016
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCLA-KIP_Logo-Suite-FINAL-02-e1618007607555.png
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2018-12-04 10:05:332026-08-27 21:21:54Knowledge is Power: Empowering Youth in the Juvenile Justice System Through Popular Education || Awarded 2018
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/You-Are-Here-title-card-scaled-e1664171606339.jpeg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2018-12-26 05:00:542026-08-27 21:22:37YOU ARE HERE – a homebound travelogue || Awarded 2018
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/F01-Armenta-Amada-PHOTO-1-e1563906528176.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2019-05-22 12:16:562026-08-27 21:23:04Immigration and Legal Attitudes: Examining Puebla and Philadelphia || Awarded 2019
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/F05-Goh-Kian-PHOTO-3-e1563906517257.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2019-08-27 12:17:002026-08-27 21:23:48A More Public Resilience? On Housing Justice and Climate Justice || Awarded 2019
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/F06-Hong-Grace-K.-PHOTO-2-e1564013315166.jpg
359
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2019-10-05 09:49:512026-08-27 21:24:17UC Extreme Sentencing Project || Awarded 2019
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Financialization-US-Industrial-Forest-Estate-scaled-e1664171596314.jpeg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2019-10-06 12:17:072026-08-27 21:24:43Financialization, Community Change, and the Social Impacts of the Vertical Dis-Integration of the U.S. Industrial Forest Estate || Awarded 2019
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/F11-Ritterbusch-Amy-E.-PHOTO-1-e1564420830834.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2019-11-01 21:08:362026-08-27 21:25:15‘DesAgarrando Pueblo’ – A Research Justice Collective Against Knowledge Extractivism || Awarded 2019
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/F13-Solorzano-Daniel-G.-PHOTO-1-e1563906550855.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2019-11-02 12:17:162026-08-27 21:25:48The Untold Story of Los Angeles: Women of Color in Academia Life Histories Project || Awarded 2019
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/F14-Blu-Wakpa-Tria4-e1565751790705.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2019-11-26 10:03:202026-08-27 21:26:23Carceral Liberation? A Native American Prison Art Show || Awarded 2019
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/EvictionduringCOVID_mid-1030x687-1-e1618005473781.jpeg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2020-01-26 13:32:262026-08-27 21:27:04COVID-19 and Renter Distress: Evidence from Los Angeles || Awarded 2020
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Systemic-Racial-Inequality-and-the-COVID-19-Renter-Crisis-IMG-e1662439836872.jpeg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2020-02-28 12:07:302026-08-27 21:27:33Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis || Awarded 2020
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Smythe-collage6-2-e1629490709686.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2020-03-01 21:10:182026-08-27 21:28:03Divestment, Reparations, and the Abolition University || Awarded 2020
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Black-White-and-Triangle-Data-Chase-Games-Logo-1-e1625167006453.png
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2020-03-27 18:41:052026-08-27 21:28:30Formations of Race, the Body, and Technologies of Criminalization in Immigration Enforcement || Awarded 2020
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/UCLA-Law-COVID-Behind-Bars-Data-Project-e1664172348478.png
359
638
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2021-07-05 23:06:302026-08-27 21:29:12Right to Release: Analyzing Disparities in Compassionate Release Decisions for People Incarcerated During the Coronavirus Pandemic || Awarded 2021
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Photo-by-Thomas-Hawk-e1664172218360.jpeg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2021-08-28 23:13:122026-08-27 21:29:36Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime || Awarded 2021
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Shared-Horizons-scaled-e1664172274482.jpeg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2021-09-01 21:11:062026-08-27 21:30:03Shared Horizons: Practices and Poetics of Transatlantic Abolition || Awarded 2021
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Gasser-Ordaz-The-Ties-that-Bind-img-scaled-e1692075103723.jpg
359
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2022-08-26 13:27:002026-08-27 21:30:25The Ties that Bind: Relationships Between Law Enforcement and the Department of Children and Family Services in Los Angeles County || Awarded 2022
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Dual-image-for-site-1.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2023-07-03 14:00:002026-08-27 21:30:55Case Study of Strategies to Decrease Flood Impacts on Health in SanPaTong District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand || Awarded 2023
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Trio-of-images-by-Shandra-Fleming.jpg
360
640
anwu
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bxd_Blk_LIID_Luskin_G-1030x283.jpg
anwu2024-03-26 09:00:032026-08-27 21:31:32Sanctuary Spaces and Embodied Sovereignty: Dancing Ocean Dreams Through Prison Walls || Awarded 2024