Social Sciences Division
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Latin American & Latino Studies
Rachel Carson College Academic Building
305
spring 2024: by appointment (j.pedroza@ucsc.edu)
Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
I'm an Assistant Professor of sociology at UCSC where I study the changing landscape of immigration in the United States. Over the past decade, I have examined the vast inequalities of immigrants' access to justice and the social safety net. My research examines how and where deportation and enforcement initiatives exacerbate these inequalities and leave imprints in our local communities.
My research on immigrant families has received support from the Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant. I also received an Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship (2020-2021) from the Institute for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by The JPB Foundation).
I completed my sociology Ph.D. in 2018 from Stanford University, where I was a Fellow at Stanford's Center for Poverty and Inequality and Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE). Before graduate school, I worked as a research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC as a research associate. I received my BA at DePauw University in 2003 (History; Conflict Studies) and an MPA at Indiana University, Bloomington-SPEA in 2006 (policy analysis; economic development).
2023-24: Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant
2020-21: Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Institute for Research on Poverty) & The JPB Foundation
2018: Academic Achievement Award, Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University
2017-18: Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow
2014-17: Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow
2012-15: Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity Graduate Fellowship
