The AAAS bestowed Professor J. Edward Taylor, a lifetime honor of being an elected Fellow in recognition of his extraordinary achievements in advancing science. UC Davis News mentioned 10 members are from the university.
Assistant Professors Katherine Eriksson and Jenna Stearns have received two of the seven Junior Faculty Research Grants awarded this year by UC Davis's Institute for Social Sciences (ISS).
Assistant Professor Katherine Eriksson has received a UC Davis Hellman Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year. Hellman Fellowships are awarded each year to promising early-career researchers across many divisions of the university.
The Giannini Foundation awards a grant of $26,992 to J. Edward Taylor and Zach Rutledge for their study, “The Impacts of a Declining Farm Labor Supply on Farming in California”, that identifies which adjustment mechanisms are likely to dominate the transition of an era of farm labor scarcity.
The research suggests that undocumented immigration status detrimentally impacts mobility, yet few studies have tested the impacts of legal status on psychological well-being.
Associate Professor Erin Hamilton has been awarded the Fulbright-García Robles Grant to study the migration experiences of families with children in relation to Mexico-U.S. migration.
Patler's research will use original longitudinal and mixed-methods data to address a series of questions about DACA’s role in influencing the educational disadvantages faced by undocumented children and youth.
Cecilia M. Tsu has been awarded 2018 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships. The ACLS Fellowship program, the longest-running of our current fellowship and grant programs, is funded by ACLS’s endowment.
Associate Professor of Sociology Jacob Hibel, along with 11 other associate professors, described by Chancellor Gary S. May as "stellar researchers and educators".
DHI Faculty Fellow Caitlin Patler will be a “residence” in spring 2018. Her project focuses on "The Impacts of Long-term Immigration Detention on Individuals, Households, and Communities"
Diane Charlton and Ed Taylor won the Quality of Research Discovery Award, Honorable Mention, for "A Declining Farm Workforce: Analysis of Panel Data from Rural Mexico" at the 2017 AAEA (Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) Annual Meeting.
In June, Anne Visser and colleagues from the Norwegian Technical University and the University of Exeter in hte (UK) recieved a 1.7 million dollar grant from the Norwegian Research Council to Look at Global Immigration to Rural Areas of Post Industrial Economies.
