Announcements

Check back here regularly to learn about Luskin Center activities, new reports, and other noteworthy updates about our work.

Dr. Paul’s Article on the American Historical Review

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In 2022-2023, LCHP Researcher Dr. Paul led a research team that studied street naming practices in Los Angeles. The team, consisting of student research fellows Maggie Seay, Tessa Fier, and Rachel Tokofsky, explored what personal names were commemorated in LA street names, why certain individuals are commemorated with street names while others aren’t, and what effects these names have in neighborhoods. In September 2023, Dr. Paul published an article based on this LCHP-funded project in the American Historical Review as part of the “engaged history” forum. We are very proud of her academic accomplishments and we are happy to continue supporting this ongoing research in 2023-24. 

Samuel Feldblum’s Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Award

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Samuel Feldblum, a UCLA graduate student, won the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Fellowship award in 2023. With this award, he will study abroad in Chile and the research will focus on water governance through the lens of historical political ecology. He worked with the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy in the past as a part of the Student Debt and University Endowment Funding research team in 2022-2023 as a graduate student research fellow under Professor David N. Myers. As an LCHP grantee and researcher, he co-wrote and published articles including “The Transformation of Academic Labor: Past as Prologue at the UC” and “Ronald Reagan’s Ghost Runs the UC System. Expect strikes until that changes.” We are proud of the work he has gone on to accomplish and we wish him the best!

LCHP Funded Research on “Racism by Design” Published

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Journal of the American Planning Association: Vol 88, No 3 (Current issue)

LCHP Funded Research about Asian Immigration and the Adoption of Planning and Design Regulations in Three Los Angeles Suburbs

UCLA graduate student Hao Ding and Professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris recently published a peer-reviewed article “Racism by Design? Asian Immigration and the Adoption of Planning and Design Regulations in Three Los Angeles Suburbs” in the Journal of the American Planning Association. Based on their research supported by LCHP, Ding and Loukaitou-Sideris examine the exclusionary effects of land use and design controls in three Los Angeles County cities.

Read their published article here.

LCHP releases report on UCLA’s response to crisis throughout history

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LCHP releases report on UCLA’s response to crisis throughout history

The Luskin Center is not only devoted to producing a new mode of research that brings historical depth to issues of policy relevance and urgency.  We are also deeply committed to marshaling the exceptional talents of student researchers, both undergraduate and graduate.  At the same time, we are intent on examining critically our own university environment, especially in the wake of the call for self-reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd in May 2020.

In this spirit, we are pleased to launch a suite of three new LCHP research reports, all of which have been spearheaded by UCLA graduate and undergraduate students.  The first paper explores the stunning rise and longer-term consequences of contingent academic labor in the University of California system. The second is devoted to the history of race and racism at UCLA, focusing on forgotten personalities and chapters now brought to the light of day.  The third report took rise in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and investigates how UCLA responded to past crises of major scale.

As a whole, these reports offer a much-needed critical and constructive perspective on the institution that we call home. It is our hope that a thorough and honest exploration can show the path to a better and more just UCLA community.  As always, we welcome your feedback and input on this important body of research.

LCHP Releases Report on Racism and the Quest for Racial Justice at UCLA

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LCHP Releases Report on Racism and the Quest for Racial Justice at UCLA

The Luskin Center is not only devoted to producing a new mode of research that brings historical depth to issues of policy relevance and urgency.  We are also deeply committed to marshaling the exceptional talents of student researchers, both undergraduate and graduate.  At the same time, we are intent on examining critically our own university environment, especially in the wake of the call for self-reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd in May 2020.

In this spirit, we are pleased to launch a suite of three new LCHP research reports, all of which have been spearheaded by UCLA graduate and undergraduate students.  The first paper explores the stunning rise and longer-term consequences of contingent academic labor in the University of California system.  The second, released below, is devoted to the history of race and racism at UCLA, focusing on forgotten personalities and chapters now brought to the light of day.  The third report, to be released in early April, took rise in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and investigates how UCLA responded to past crises of major scale.

As a whole, these reports offer a much-needed critical and constructive perspective on the institution that we call home. It is our hope that a thorough and honest exploration can show the path to a better and more just UCLA community.  As always, we welcome your feedback and input on this important body of research.

The History of Racism and the Quest for Racial Justice at UCLA

The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy is pleased to release a new series of reports about the history of the UC and UCLA.

The second report in this series investigates the long history of race and racism at UCLA. It examines the experiences and treatment of students of color throughout the university’s history, as well as examples of the individuals and movements that led the fight for racial justice at UCLA.

This report was researched and written by a team of over a dozen graduate and undergraduate student researchers conducted research over the past year and a half. They include: Desmond Fonseca, Mariana Gonzalez, Ariel Nicole Hart, Nadeeka Karunaratne, Armond Lee, Gabriela Legaspi, Kosi Ogbuli, Héctor Osorio, Abdullah Puckett, Debanjan Roychoudhury, Marisol Sánchez Castillo, Alexa Sass, Kateri Son, Skylar Weatherford.

To read the paper, click [HERE].

Listen to report authors Debanjan Roychoudhury, Kateri Son, and Skylar Weatherford in conversation with Professor Aomar Boum about their research in the podcast episode