We are pleased to announce that Caitlin Patler will be a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Criminology, Law and Society for the 2014-15 academic year.
Patler’s research analyzes how immigration status impacts education, employment, and health among immigrants and their families. Her work also explores how immigrants experience and resist exclusion in everyday life, within institutions such as schools, and through detention and deportation policies. She is currently conducting mixed methods research on the impacts of the DACA program, and on the individual and household effects of immigration detention. Patler has received multiple grants and awards for her research.
Patler will receive her PhD in 2014 in Sociology from UCLA, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow and a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellow. She received her M.A. in Sociology from UCLA and her B.A. with College Honors, Magna Cum Laude, in Sociology and Chicana/o Studies from UCLA. Patler’s research is informed by over 12 years of work in the Los Angeles immigrant rights movement.