Awards

GMC Deputy Director Robert McKee Irwin has obtained a “Mobilities to Mexico” seed grant from Alianza UCMX to send five graduate students from his Humanizando la Deportación team to carry out field research this summer in Tijuana, where they will work with colleagues from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, focusing principally on documenting the experiences of asylum seekers.

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GMC affiliate, Paola Langer won the 2023 Population Association of America Poster Award for her work, State-Level Spending and Black–White Mortality Gaps. 

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GMC program coordinator, Giuseppe Ippedico was awarded an Early Career Research Award by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research to pursue research on the topic “The Employment and Wage Effects of Tax-Induced Migration”. Congratulations. 

UC Davis School of Law Dean and GMC affiliate Kevin R. Johnson wins the Michael A. Olivas Award. Johnson is winning this award for demonstrating an Outstanding Leadership in Diversity and Mentoring in the Legal Academy from the Association of American Law Schools.

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Brad Jones was featured as the “Resident Expert” in the most recent issue of the UC Davis Magazine. 

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Cecilia Vasquez was awarded a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Ethnic Studies department at UC Riverside for the upcoming academic year, during which she will continue to develop her deeply collaborative community-based scholarship in the Inland Empire.

GMC Deputy Director Robert McKee Irwin and Faculty Affiliate Emily Vázquez, both of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, in collaboration with Affiliates Raquel Aldana and Leticia Saucedo of UCD Law School, have been awarded a Humanities Connections Planning Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities in order to prepare bilingual students for careers in immigration law – including those aspiring to law school, as well as those who aim to work in civil organizations that serve Spanish speaking immigrant communities – by developing a series of upper division courses in Spanish th

Robert McKee Irwin and co-PI Juan Antonio Del Monte of the Observatorio de Legislación y Política Migratoria of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte have been awarded a Programa de Investigación en Migración y Salud (PIMSA) grant through UC Berkeley's Health Initiative of the Americas for their project "Migrants and Covid-19 in Tijuana: Digital Stories," which they will realize under the auspices of the Humanizing Deportation project.

Congratulations to GMC Graduate Student Affiliate Justin Wiltshire as he was recently awarded a grant by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth for his research onto the effect of Walmart Supercenters on local labor markets. 

Congratulations to GMC Affiliate Dr. Angel Desai for her recent nomination as a Stephen M. Kellen Term Member for the Council of Foreign Relations! From the website, "The Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program provides young professionals in government, media, nongovernmental organizations, law, business, finance, and academia the opportunity to participate in a sustained conversation on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.

Congratulations to GMC Affiliate Santiago Perez for being awarded a Hellman Fellowship for his joint work with Diana Moreira! The Hellman Fellows Program recognizes early-career faculty and awards grantees with funding toward their research. 

Robert Irwin and his Humanizando la Deportación project team has been recognized with Silver Circle of Excellence Award in News and Research Videos from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Patler, Hamilton, and Savinar's publication "The Limits of Gaining Rights while Remaining Marginalized: The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program and the Psychological Wellbeing of Latina/o Undocumented Youth" has been deemed the best publication of 2021 American Sociological Association Sociology of Mental Health Section. The award ceremony will take place on Monday, August 9. The logistics of the location and time are yet to be determined, but we will be sure to provide an update when more information is released!