The Center for Poverty & Inequality Research hosts an annual
seminar series on poverty issues. We are pleased to welcome
faculty, researchers, and thought leaders to the UC Davis campus.
Most of our seminars are located in Andrews Conference Room, 2203
Social Sciences and Humanities Building, unless otherwise noted.
Directions to Andrews Conference Room:
Enter the Social
Sciences & Humanities Building through the Letters & Science
Dean’s Office entrance (arch and glass doors). Stairs and
elevator are located just inside; proceed to the second floor.
Andrews is on the right side of the hall, 2203 SS&H.
Professor Hammond will present his paper entitled, On
Fires, Floods, and Federalism: Adapting Welfare Programs for the
Climate Crisis. Professor Hammond’s research contextualizes
the climate crisis in our scholarly understanding of the American
welfare state. Professor Hammond will explain how, amid the
recent spate of fires and floods, federal law has fared. His work
attends to the role of Congress, weakened as it is by increased
polarization and diminished capacity, and how the resulting
delays and distortions in emergency relief have hampered the
government response.
Laura Tach’s research and teaching interests focus on poverty and
social policy. In her research she uses quantitative and
qualitative methods to study how social policies can alleviate
poverty among disadvantaged families and communities.
Florencia Torche is Dunlevie Family Professor in the School
of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Her research
and writing focus on social inequality and social mobility,
educational disparities, and marriage and family dynamics. Her
recent scholarship has extensively studied the influence of
early-life exposures and circumstances –starting before birth– on
individual health, development, and wellbeing using natural
experiments and causal inference approaches.
Aresha Martinez-Cardoso is an interdisciplinary public health
researcher and Assistant Professor in the Department of Public
Health Sciences. Her research integrates theoretical perspectives
from the social sciences with epidemiological methods in public
health to examine how social inequality in the US shapes
population health, with a particular focus on the health of
racial/ethnic groups and immigrants.
Dr.
Weitzman is an assistant professor in the Department of
Sociology and a research affiliate of the Population Research
Center and the Long Institute for Latin American Studies at the
University of Texas. She received her PhD in Sociology from New
York University in 2015, before completing a 2-year postdoctoral
felllowship at the University of Michigan. Prior to completing
her PhD she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru and Belize
and worked as an intern at the United Nations Development Fund
for Women.
UCI’s Center for Population, Inequality and Policy will invite
submissions to present at the inaugural All-UC Demography
Conference. This meeting will highlight current
demographic research happening within the UC system and provide a
venue for making connections across UC campuses, with a
keynote talk by Ron Lee, Distinguished Professor and
founding director of UC Berkeley Center for the Economics and
Demography of Aging.
