Visiting Scholars

The Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy hosts visiting scholars. The following individuals have visited UCI for one week through a visiting poverty scholars program sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Anna R. Haskins

Anna R. Haskins is the Andrew V. Tackes Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Initiative on Race and Resilience at the University of Notre Dame. Her research examines how three of America’s most powerful social institutions—the education system, the family, and the criminal legal system—connect and interact in ways that both preserve and mitigate social inequality, with emphasis on early educational outcomes, intergenerational impacts, and disparities by race/ethnicity. She is visiting CPIP in February 2025.

 

Brian Holzman

Dr. Brian Holzman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University. His research examines the pathway to college, paying particular attention to first-and second-generation immigrants, English learners, students of color, and students from socioeconomically marginalized backgrounds. He completed an M.A. in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education and Higher Education Administration at Stanford University. He is visiting CPIP in January 2025.

 

Stephanie L. Canizales

Stephanie L. Canizales was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Merced when she visited UCI and is now at University of California at Berkeley. Stephanie specializes in migration and immigrant incorporation, children and youth, inequality, poverty, and mobility, race/ethnicity, and organizations. Her book project, entitled Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, systematically examines why undocumented, unaccompanied Central American and Mexican youth migrate to Los Angeles, California, and how they incorporate into school, work, family, and community life as they come of age without parents.  Her next project will more closely analyze youths’ experiences as labor migrants, their entry into and participation in the U.S. workforce and economy, and to further investigate the strategies youth employ to navigate poverty and mobility in a timely manner. She specializes in migration and immigrant integration, children and youth, inequality, poverty, mobility, and race and ethnicity. She visited CPIP in 2020-2021.

 

Anita Mukherjee

Anita Mukherjee was an Assistant Professor in Department of Risk and Insurance, Wisconsin School of Business, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison when she visited UCI. She conducts research on household finance, retirement, and aging. She also has a stream of research using applied microeconomics to inform public policy related to prisons and the opioid crisis. Her research covers both the US and emerging markets. Mukherjee earned her Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in 2014. She visited the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute, one of CPIP's predecessors in 2018-2019.