RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7:130–53. Special issue on Asian Americans and the Immigrant Integration Agenda.
Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 4th edition, edited by Nancy Fischer, Steven Seidman, and Laurel Westbrook. New York: Routledge.
Evolutionary Human Sciences. 3: E27.
Book Review.
Graduate Student Fellow
Jimena Rico-Straffon is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at UC Santa Barbara. Her research interests lie at the intersection of environmental, development, and labor economics. Her current research estimates the effects of water shortages on urban households using administrative and survey data from Mexico City. Her research also studies the effects of forest policies on deforestation and degradation in tropical forests. Jimena holds a Master of Public Policy from Duke University and a B.A. in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). education.
Grants, Awards and Distinctions:
Deacon Fellowship, UCSB Economics Department
UC MEXUS- CONACYT Doctoral Fellowship (2019-2024)
UC Berkeley and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Diversity Fellowship for participating in the Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Energy and Environmental Economics, $1,000
CAF Development Bank of Latin America, Research Grant on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, co-PI, $6,000
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, UCSB Economics (2023)
Graduate Student Fellow
Adam Burston is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Dept. with an emphasis in Information, Technology, and Society. His work lies at the intersection of gender, race, and social movement studies. His dissertation research focuses on the strategies that conservative and right-wing activists employ to form multi-racial coalitions, mobilize in digital and physical spaces, and enact social change. He is also assisting Drs. Sarah Thébaud and Brenda Major on research that addresses the impact of normative gender stereotypes in America. Before Adam came to UCSB he was a research associate with Carnegie Mellon’s Dept. of Engineering and Public Policy and a volunteer crisis counselor with Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (PAAR).
Graduate Student Fellow
I am a PhD student in the Department of Economics at UCSB and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Before coming to Santa Barbara, I earned a B.A. in International Relations with a concentration in Economics from Wellesley College, and did research on labor, housing and education at Abt Associates. My current research interests include labor, social policy, and increasingly, economic history, along with applied econometrics. I am working on a project concerning interracial interactions during the Jim Crow era of the American South.
Self and Identity, 1-26. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2019.1662839.
Pp. 69-72 in New Visions for Gender Equality. Edited by Niall Crowley and Silvia Sansonetti. Brussels: European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/saage_report-new_visions_for_gender_equality-2019.pdf
Graduate Student Fellow
Charlotte is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Sociology at UCSB. She received her MA in Sociology in the spring of 2022, which examined the association between institutional characteristics and Campus SaVE Act compliance amongst U.S. institutions of higher education. She is also working on several other projects, including examining male predictors of sexual violence and the #MeToo Movement in the Middle East, and how parents navigated childcare responsibilities during COVID-19.
Charlotte uses both quantitative and qualitative methods and is interested in gender and sex, sexual violence, education, and organizations.
Grants, Awards and Distinctions:
Research Seed Grant, Sociology Department, UCSB, 2022. $1,000.
