Message from Chancellor Fox: One of UCSD’s greatest institutional strengths is the breadth and depth of faculty research on a range of important topics. Each month, Chancellor’s Corner will showcase cross-disciplinary faculty expertise in a specific area. I invite you to learn more about the work of these scholars, and I hope you share my pride in their achievements and their contributions to society.

IMMIGRATION STUDIES

Wayne A. Cornelius, Gildred Professor of U.S.-Mexican Relations;
Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
Wayne Cornelius, one of the foremost authorities on immigration trends in the nation, specializes in comparative studies of immigration and immigration policy, Mexican politics, and U.S.-Mexican relations and is one of the top experts in the country on Mexican immigration to the United States. More…

Yen Le Espiritu, Professor and Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies
Yen Le Espiritu focuses her research on the challenges traditional descriptions of racial categories, most specifically that of Asian Americans. She specializes in U.S. imperialism and wars, Southeast Asian refugees, and Filipino American history. Currently, Espiritu is interested on the transnational and gendered lives of Filipino immigrants and Filipino Americans. More…

Gordon H. Hanson, Professor, IRPS; Professor,
Department of Economics; Co-Director, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
Hanson is an authority on foreign investment, immigration, and international trade. His major research areas are the impact of NAFTA on the U.S. and Mexican economies, multinational enterprises and the globalization of production, and Mexican immigration in the United States. More….

James Holston, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Holston has a primary interest in political anthropology, though he draws on several fields of inquiry, including law, architecture, and planning. His current research examines modern citizenship in two contexts of change and uncertainty: the emergence of new democracies and the transformations of contemporary cities. He studies relations of cities, citizenship, and democracy primarily in Brazil and the United States. He has also worked on issues of illegal immigration and civic participation in California, focusing on the increasing presence of non-nationals and/or discriminated citizens in cities and considering the problems their civic exclusion poses for American and Brazilian democracy. More…

David Naguib Pellow, Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies;
Director, California Cultures in Comparative Perspective
David Pellow joined the UCSD faculty in the fall of 2002. An Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, Pellow is also the Director of the California Cultures in Comparative Perspective, a research initiative that supports creative interdisciplinary research, teaching and collaborations among faculty, students, and the public. His primary disciplines are sociology and ethnic studies, and his areas of research focus on environmental conflict in ethnic communities in the U.S., Africa, and Asia. Pellow can speak to issues concerning race/ethnicity, the environment, labor, social protest, immigration, free trade agreements, and globalization, as well as the global impacts of the high tech industry in Asia, Latin America and other regions of the world. More…

John D. Skrentny, Professor of Sociology
With a primary discipline in sociology, John Skretny is also known by political scientists, legal scholars and historians. His research most generally is on law, public policy and inequality. He has recently begun research on immigration law and policy in East Asia and Europe. Skretny is able to comment on any of these topics, or, more generally, on race/ethnicity politics/law, gender politics/law, and immigration politics/law. More…

David G. Gutierrez, Associate Professor, Department of History
David Gutierrez specializes in Mexican-American history, the history of the American Southwest, comparative immigration, and ethnicity. Gutierrez researches and publishes in the areas of twentieth century US political history with special emphases on Mexican-American and Mexican immigration history, history of the US-Mexico borderlands, comparative immigration and ethnic studies, and the history of citizenship and civil rights in the United States. More…

** To learn more about other campus faculty scholars and areas of expertise, please visit the searchable UCSD Faculty Experts Database at: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/facultyExperts/