Each year, the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy funds visionary research projects and programs that bring together in-depth historical research and cutting-edge policy analysis.

Luskin Center Research Grants are awarded to research teams comprised of UCLA faculty, graduate students, and community partners. These research teams are awarded funds to conduct collaborative research that will bring historical analysis to bear on specific issues of contemporary relevance. The teams are specifically asked to produce historical and policy analysis that will aim to solve the contemporary issue they have identified.

See below for announcements and updates from our grantees and the work they have done with us. To see a full list of our grantees, click here.

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 Funded Research on Southern African Migration Governance Published

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LCHP Funded Research on Southern African Migration Governance Published

Professor E. Tendayi Achiume and Dr. Tamara Last recently published their peer-reviewed article “Decolonial Regionalism: Reorienting Southern African Migration Policy” in the journal Third World Approaches to International Law Review, based on research they conducted with an LCHP Research Grant. The authors analyze southern African migration governance – in the context of colonial history of migration – and its effects on the lived experiences of migrants in the region. Achiume and Last are on track to develop a full policy brief with a set of policy recommendations regarding southern African migration governance.

Their published article can be found here.

Luskin Fellow Tyler Reny Publishes Article on White Voting Patterns after the Second Great Migration

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Luskin Innovation Fellow for 2017-2018 Tyler Reny (Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA Political Science) has just published an article based on research funded by the Luskin Center. The article, entitled “Protecting the Right to Discriminate: The Second Great Migration and Racial Threat in the American West,” explores voting patterns in White communities in California in the wake of the Second Great Migration of the 1940s-1960s, when many Black families moved into majority White neighborhoods. Reny’s work suggests that White voters perceived a “racial threat” that significantly altered their voting choices. To view the article, visit this webpage.