Inaugural Class of Luskin Center Innovation Fellows 2017-2018

The Luskin Center for History and Policy is pleased to announce the inaugural class of Innovation Fellows of the Luskin Center for History and Policy for 2017-2018.  The Center received an outstanding crop of proposals from faculty and graduate students in the Departments of History, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Urban Planning and the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.  The successful grantees were awarded funds to conduct research concerning the application of history to issues of contemporary relevance, or to teach a new course that explores the same intersection.

The winning recipients are:

Molly Fee

Molly Fee

Department of Sociology

OF SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN CONCERN: HISTORICIZING 21st CENTURY REFUGEE SELECTION POLICY IN THE U.S. (RESEARCH PROPOSAL)

Seeks to understand how the U.S. government selects refugee groups for resettlement.

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Tobias Higbie

Tobias Higbie

Department of History

WHAT HISTORY CAN TELL US ABOUT LABOR POLICY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT STRATEGY IN THE TRUMP ERA (RESEARCH PROPOSAL)

Develops research collections, reports, and public interventions on labor policy and strategy.

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Paul Ong

Paul Ong

Luskin School of Public Affairs

UNCERTAIN PROGRESS: SOUTH LA SINCE THE 1968 KERNER COMMISSION REPORT (RESEARCH PROPOSAL)

Examines what progress has (or has not) been made since the 1965 Watts Riots in South Los Angeles, to document how the nature of socioeconomic stratification has transformed, and to assess outcomes relative to  the recommendations made by the Kerner Commission and California’s McCone Report on employment, housing, and education

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Tyler Reny

Tyler Reny

Department of Political Science

THE RIGHT TO DISCRIMINATE: THE SECOND GREAT MIGRATION AND RACIAL THREAT IN THE 1964 ELECTION (RESEARCH PROPOSAL)

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Sarah T. Roberts

Sarah T. Roberts

GSEIS

BROADENING THE LONGVIEW ON COMMERCIAL CONTENT MODERATION: HISTORY AND POLICY OF INTERNET MEDIATION (RESEARCH PROPOSAL)

Expands her research on commercial content moderation (CCM) into its historical antecedents, online and offline.

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David Stein

David Stein

Department of African American Studies And History

THE QUESTION OF REPARATIONS: HISTORIES OF RACISM, INEQUALITY, AND PUBLIC POLICY (COURSE PROPOSAL)

Investigates the histories of public policies around land, housing, pollution, and more.

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Bin Wong

Bin Wong

Department of History

WATER GOVERNANCE: ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAKING IN CHINA, E.U., AND U.S. (RESEARCH PROPOSAL)

Seeks to identify the institutional histories of water governance in these three parts of the world.

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