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.

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.

Madina Thiam’s Experience at the 2017 Second coordination meeting with C2Cs and UNITIWIN/UNESCO Chairs

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Madina Thiam, a Luskin Center grant recipient for 2017, is a doctoral student in the Department of History at UCLA. She is also the co-editor-in-chief of Ufahamu: A Journal of African History. Madina’s research focuses on the history of Sahel. Her Luskin Center grant allowed her to attend the Second coordination meeting with C2Cs and UNITIWIN/UNESCO Chairs. The meeting is described in her report linked here. 

Javier Muñoz’s Experience at the Humanity in Action Senior Fellow Forum in Berlin

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Javier Muñoz, a Luskin Center grant recipient for 2017, is a doctoral student in the UCLA Department of History. His research focuses on twentieth-century United States history, including social movements, constructions of race, racial capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, migration, and the African Diaspora. He is also a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow. His Luskin Center grant allowed him to attend the Humanity in Action Senior Fellow Forum in Berlin, Germany in November 2017, entitled “Flight and Migration: Societies in Transition,” which he describes in his report here.