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Jennie Brand was elected Vice President (2023-25) and incoming President (2025-27) of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28).

June 28, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

The European Joint Commission Research Centre is hosting the Demography and Climate Change Web Streamed Panel Discussion: EU in the Global Context on June 5

June 1, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to Natasha Quadlin for being elected to section council for the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility.

June 1, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to Caitlin Ahearn and Pablo Geraldo for being selected the co-winners of the 6th Annual Robert Mare Lecture.

May 11, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to Heidi West and co-authors for winning one of the best posters at the All-UC Demography Conference for their study titled, “Migration, gender, and families: The effects of spousal migration on women’s empowerment.”

May 9, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to Courtney Thomas Tobin for being appointed the new Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Her appointment starts on July 1.

May 2, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Russell Sage Foundation Call for Articles

April 26, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to Caitlin Ahearn for accepting a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Economic Inclusion Project at Stanford University.

April 19, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

We are excited to announce that CCPR is once again hosting a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS).

March 15, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to Anne Pebley on her recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for her study on Mexican deportees over a period of 20 years.

February 22, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to Cecilia Menjivar for being elected as the 2023 W.E.B. DuBois Fellow for the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

February 15, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to Melissa Chiu, former CCPR graduate affiliate, who has been named as the new director of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

February 14, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to Christine Dunkel Schetter for being named a 2020 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

February 12, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to Wei-hsin Yu for her recent publication titled, “Time Is Money? Wage Premiums and Penalties for Time-Related Occupational Demands” in the American Journal of Sociology

February 1, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

CCPR Director, Jennie Brand, was interviewed on KQED’s Forum

January 31, 2023/by Esmeralda melgoza

Congratulations to CCPR Faculty Fellow Martha Bailey for being the recipient of the 2022 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economic Association!

January 12, 2023/by Denise Gonzalez

Congratulations to Laura Wray-Lake for being awarded a $200,000 grant from AmeriCorps as part of the 2022 National Service and Civic Engagement Research Project

December 2, 2022/by Denise Gonzalez

A new report by the California Policy Lab (CPL) shows that when extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits were terminated in 2021, it led to a dramatic decrease in the number of workers who were receiving unemployment benefits but did not increase the number of people who became employed. 

December 1, 2022/by Denise Gonzalez

Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grants Program

November 15, 2022/by Denise Gonzalez

A new monthly representative survey of LA’s unhoused population developed by Randall Kuhn and team was featured in the LA Times

November 3, 2022/by Denise Gonzalez