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.

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

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.