2018-2019 Fellows | Scholarship Matters - Center for Engaged Scholarship - CES

Deisy Del Real, PhD

Staff — Tue, 15 May 2018 22:00:39 +0000

Deisy Del Real completed her dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California.

Deisy analyzes how the Latin American nations belonging to Mercosur—a regional trade agreement—developed policies to protect citizens who migrate from one Mercosur nation to another. She shows how these agreements provide greater protection to transnational migrants than the rules in place in the U.S. or the European Community.

Idit Fast, PhD

Staff — Tue, 15 May 2018 21:55:54 +0000

Idit Fast studies three public elementary schools in New York City that are implementing a new ‘diversity initiative’ designed to reverse the pattern of continuing school segregation by race and class. Her focus is on what works to overcome the distrust that exists between parents of different races and different social classes.

Chris Herring, PhD

Staff — Tue, 15 May 2018 21:50:29 +0000

Chris Herring completed his dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Chris is currently writing a study of the three key aspects of homelessness in the US metropolis: the streets, the shelter, and the policies pursued by city government. He analyzes the factors that determines who sleeps in the street or in shelters, and he provides a powerful critique of existing government policies.

Madeleine Pape, PhD

Staff — Tue, 15 May 2018 21:45:16 +0000

Madeleine Pape analyzes how governing bodies reassert sex as binary and biological despite alternative notions becoming more credible as a result of transgender, intersex, queer, and feminist activism and scholarship. She focuses on how the governing organizations in track and field establish the criteria for deciding who is eligible to compete as a woman.

Nantina Vgontzas, PhD

Staff — Tue, 15 May 2018 21:40:59 +0000

Nantina Vgontzas investigates the organization of work in the fulfillment warehouses of large online retail firms. By comparing both work organization and resistance in warehouses in the U.S. and Germany, she is illuminating how new technologies constrain workers. Yet she is also looking for strategies through which these employees could exert pressure for better compensation and working conditions.