Dr. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes is Professor of Economics at University of California, Merced, a Research Fellow at CReAM, FEDEA, GLO and IZA, an Advisory committee member of the Americas Center Advisory Council at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Western Representative in the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Professions (CSWEP) since 2015. Her areas of interest include labor economics, international migration and remittances. She has published on contingent work contracts, the informal work sector, international remittances, as well as on immigrant assimilation...
Dr. Nora C.R. Broege is an Assistant Professor of Education Leadership in the School of Education. She teaches the suite of quantitative courses, and a class on theories of social capital, in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. Her research interests include sociology of education, racial/ethnic inequality, and quantitative methods. She has published on disparities in academic outcomes among minority students and students with disabilities; the effectiveness of curriculum reforms aimed at increasing access to culturally relevant education;...
Assistant Professor in the Department of Demography
Dennis Feehan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Demography at the UC, Berkeley. He is a demographer and quantitative social scientist. His research interests lie at the intersection of social networks, demography, and quantitative methodology. In the summer of 2015, he finished his Ph.D. at Princeton’s Office of Population Research, and he spent the fall of 2015 as a Research Scientist at Facebook.
Dr. Patty Frontiera is a geospatial data scientist, retired from D-Lab as their former Interim Executive Director; former Co-Director, Berkeley Federal Statistical Research Data Center; and former Data Services Lead. She was the official campus representative for ICPSR, the Roper Center, and the Census State Data Center network, and serves as the Co-Director of the Berkeley Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC). Patty also develops the geospatial workshop curriculum, teaches workshops, and consults on geospatial topics. Patty has been with the D-Lab since 2014 and served as the...
Filiz Garip is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Her research lies at the intersection of migration, economic sociology and inequality. Within this general area, she studies the mechanisms that enable or constrain mobility and lead to greater or lesser degrees of social and economic inequality. Her work has been published in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Population and Development Review, Sociological Methods and Research. Her book, On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration, has won three best book awards. For more information, please...
Taeku Lee is Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University. Lee has researched and written extensively on racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and political behavior, identity and inequality, and deliberative and participatory democracy. His current projects include a forthcoming Cambridge University Press book on the centrality of race in American politics (with Zoltan Hajnal and Vincent Hutchings); a six-country study of public opinion on banks and banking (with Pepper Culpepper); research into anti-Asian American sentiments and the racial formation of Asian...
Katerina Linos teaches international business transactions, international law, European Union law, and international organizations.
She is best known for her research on the diffusion of ideas around the world. Her book “The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries” won three national awards. She documents that laws don’t spread only through expert networks, but also through popular movements. Politicians can win elections by advocating for tried-and-true, mainstream models. Therefore, the same law is often adopted...