CPIR Affiliate Tina Law Receives UCOP Early Career Research Excellence Award
Tina Law, assistant professor of sociology, has just been
selected to receive a 2026-2027 UCOP Early Career Faculty
Research Excellence Award. Law, a faculty affiliate of the Center
for Poverty and Inequality Research and the Computational Social
Science Designated Emphasis Program, studies inequality, race and
ethnicity, political sociology and AI and specializes in
computational methods.
Source: UC Davis College of Letters and Sciences: A Message from
Dean Atekwana | May 13, 2026
Tina Law is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University
of California, Davis. She studies inequality, race and ethnicity,
democracy, AI, and computational methodology. She uses
computational and quantitative methods to understand the social
and political experiences of racially minoritized and low-income
Americans, particularly how they define and advance their goals
for housing, safety, and political self-determination in cities
that are often highly unequal. She also develops approaches for
using AI and natural language processing to analyze text and
image data.
