Oakes Faculty Fellows
The Oakes College faculty represents a wealth of expertise from the natural sciences to the humanities, and we are proud to have some of the top scholars in the world among our faculty. Our students major in nearly every discipline at UCSC—from economics and computer science, to theater arts and Latin American and Latino studies—and they are well supported by the depth and breadth of the Oakes College faculty and the extensive knowledge of our advising team.
TBA is Oakes's faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Affiliations Latin American & Latino Studies
- Phone 831-459-4461
- Website
- Office Location
- Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 305
- Office Hours Winter 2024: sign up here https://shorturl.at/vwAI9 (or email me)
- Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High St.
- Santa Cruz California 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Sociology, Immigration
Biography, Education and Training
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).
Honors, Awards and Grants
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
Selected Publications
2022 Pedroza, Juan Manuel. "Uneven Migration Enforcement." Contexts 21, no. 2 (2022): 60-63.
2022 Pedroza, Juan M. “Housing Instability in an Era of Mass Deportations.” Population Research and Policy Review. open access pre-print
2022 Pedroza, Juan Manuel. "Making Noncitizens’ Rights Real: Evidence from Immigration Scam Complaints." Law & Policy 44, no. 1 (2022): 44-69. open access pre-print
2019 Perreira, Krista M., and Juan M. Pedroza. "Policies of Exclusion: Implications for the Health of Immigrants and Their Children." Annual Review of Public Health. open access
Selected Recordings
