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Because every vote matters. Every single one. Election Day is November 6, but you can cast your ballot early at any designated Early Voting Center. Unlike Election Day when a voter must vote at their designated polling place, OC-registered voters can vote on campus at the OC Registrar of Voters’ mobile Early Voting Center. Avoid the lines and vote early or contact the OC Registrar of Voters to find your polling site.
 
 
 
toddlers win
 
 
featured:
Activist anthropologist
 
UCI graduate student Elizabeth Clark Rubio widens the picture of undocumented immigrants
 
 
 
 
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A balanced life
 
How UCI '01 poli sci alumni Chris Lee's battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma "shaped everything for the better"
 
 
 
 
 
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If it walks like a social movement and talks like a social movement...
 
Grad student Lev Nachman publishes work on Taiwan and Hong Kong social movements and political parties
 
 
 
Fit to be focused
 
Anteater alumna Kai Boyer '17 built a personal training business while earning her undergrad, and now she's set on taking her company global
 
 
 
A role rerouted
 
How a haunted house competition at Mesa Court helped UCI alumnus Ben Bohr, political science and global studies '09, rise to his role as Senior Operations Manager at Amazon
 
 
 
 
Outstanding Emeritus
 
Raul Fernandez, Chicano/Latino studies, is honored for his university service post-retirement
 
 
 
Faust receives Simmel Award
 
Honor recognizes sociologist for pioneering work in social network analysis
 
 
 
In memoriam: James D. March
 
Founding dean of the UCI School of Social Sciences, 1928-2018
 
 
 
Join us for the
FRESH Food Drive

UCI's FRESH Basic Needs Hub provides emergency food and toiletries to all UCI students. Help us stock the shelves November 9, 7:00-9:30 a.m., at the school-sponsored food drive in Lot 14 near the Newkirk Alumni Center.

Can't make it in person? Donate online
 
 
 
 
soc sci
in the media
 
Social sciences faculty are consistently sought by media for their expertise in areas ranging from digital play to gender pay. Check out some of our top hits below, or visit us online for the full run down.
 

The election of women and women's political empowerment


Catherine Bolzendahl, sociology, via Mobilizing Ideas
 
 
Glazer on
Amazon HQ2
Business Insider
 
 
Meyer on politics & protest
WNYC
 
 
Hoffman on the nature of reality
Discover Magazine
 
 
Richardson on
interest rates
CBS News
 
 
 
featured:
UCI FRESH Basic Needs Hub

Located at 4079 Mesa Rd,
Irvine CA 92617

 
 
 
 
calendar of
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1-31
 
OCT
 
   
 
Borders, Emotions, and Imaginaries: Magnifying Immigrant Experiences and Immigration History
 
8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. | Langson Library, First Floor
 
 
 
 
 
30
 
OCT
 
   
 
Growing Up in an Increasingly Unequal and Digital Age
 
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 4250 | Candice Odgers, Professor of Psychological Science - UCI
 
 
 
 
 
30
 
OCT
 
   
 
Does Technology Investment Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from California's K-12 Technology Voucher Program
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Brittany Bass, UCI Graduate Student
 
 
 
 
 
31
 
OCT
 
   
 
Visualization Across Disciplines: Visualization in the Research and Communication of Earth System Science
 
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 3323 | Steven J. Davis, Associate Professor of Earth System Science, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
31
 
OCT
 
   
 
Asset Price Learning and Optimal Monetary Policy
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3132 | Colin Caines, Federal Reserve Bank
 
 
 
 
 
31
 
OCT
 
   
 
Kaleidos: A Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography in the Global South
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 3323 | Maka Suarez and Jorge Nunez, Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography-Kaleidos at FLACSO-Ecuador and University of Cuenca
 
 
 
 
 
31
 
OCT
 
   
 
A Celebration of Latin American and Latinx Writing
 
4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 |Leonardo Padura, Novelist and Journalist | Alejandro Morales, Professor Emeritus, Chicano/Latino Studies, UCI | Hector Tobar, Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies and English, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
NOV
 
   
 
Prison Entrepreneurship: A Collaborative Ethnography of Money, Technology and Blackness in Latin America
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Jorge Nunez, Ph.D, Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography Kaleido at FLACSO, Ecuador
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
NOV
 
   
 
Rethinking America's Highways
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222 | Robert Poole, Reason Foundation
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
NOV
 
   
 
The Role of Representation in Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems
 
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Zyg Pizlo, Professor and Falmagne Endowed Chair, Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
NOV
 
   
 
Dismembered Communities: The Refugee Body Politics of Little Saigon
 
5:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100 | Long T. Bui, Assistant Professor, Global and International Studies, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
2-3
 
NOV
 
   
 
Formal Modeling and Analysis of Color Categorization; Innovations and Insights Since Berlin and Kay
 
9:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
 
 
 
 
 
5
 
NOV
 
   
 
The Impact of Chinese Trade on U.S. Employment: The Good, The Bad and the Apocryphal
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Philip Luck, University of Colorado Denver
 
 
 
 
 
5
 
NOV
 
   
 
Machine Learning Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects: Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | Michael Lechner, University of St. Gallen
 
 
 
 
 
6
 
Nov
 
   
 
How and Why Do Adjunct Instructors Affect Students' Academic Outcomes? Evidence from Two-Year and Four-Year Colleges
 
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Social Science Plaza B, Room 4250 Di Xu, Assistant Professor of Education - UCI
 
 
 
 
 
6
 
Nov
 
   
 
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Chloe East, University of Colorado Denver
 
 
 
 
 
7
 
Nov
 
   
 
Polarized Cities: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China
 
3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1010 | Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor Emerita of Political Science, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
7
 
Nov
 
   
 
The Growth of Emerging Economies and Global Macroeconomic Instability
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Vincenzo Quadrini, USC
 
 
 
 
 
7
 
Nov
 
   
 
Anti-Racist Horizons: Zapatista Kuxlejal Politics and Indigenous Autonomy
 
4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1341 | Mariana Mora, Associate Professor and Researcher, Center for Higher Studies and Research in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City
 
 
 
 
 
8
 
Nov
 
   
 
Determinants of Equilibrium Particulate Exposure
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Matt Turner, Brown University
 
 
 
 
 
8
 
Nov
 
   
 
Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeno
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Alex E. Chavez, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
 
 
 
 
 
8
 
Nov
 
   
 
Self-Assembling Games and Networks
 
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Jeffrey Barrett, Chancellor's Professor, Logic and Philosophy of Science, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
8
 
Nov
 
   
 
Mother of God, Son of Jupiter: Mercury Rising
 
5:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Ruth Goldstein, Assistant Professor, Global and International Studies, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
9
 
Nov
 
   
 
FRESH Hub Food Drive
 
7:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. | Lot 14 near Newkirk Alumni Center
 
 
 
 
 
9
 
Nov
 
   
 
A Remebrance of Bill Batchelder
 
3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
 
 
 
 
 
13
 
Nov
 
   
 
Mind - Body - Environment: Living Well in China
 
9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1030
 
 
 
 
 
13
 
Nov
 
   
 
Small Steps With Big Data: Using Machine Learning in Resource Economics
 
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 4250 | Matthew Harding, Associate Professor of Economics, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
13
 
Nov
 
   
 
Rental Housing Markets and Criminal Recidivism
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Tim Young, UCI Graduate Student
 
 
 
 
 
13
 
Nov
 
   
 
Study Abroad Drop-In Session
 
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1200
 
 
 
 
 
14
 
Nov
 
   
 
When Free Speech on Campus Becomes 'Unacceptable'
 
12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Carlin Romano, Professor, Ursinus College
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
Nov
 
   
 
High Priority Violations and Intra-firm Pollution Substitution
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Binish Rijal, SUNY Binghamton
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
Nov
 
   
 
Quantitative Approaches to Learning Linking Theories in Language
 
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Lisa Pearl, Professor of Language Science and Cognitive Sciences, Chair of Language Science, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
Nov
 
   
 
Screening and Discussion: Joshua: Teenager Versus Superpower
 
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Screening and Discussion with Carlin Romano, Professor, Ursinus College
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
Nov
 
   
 
Workshop: Finesse Your Experience Abroad
 
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | Student Services II, Room 1010
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
Nov
 
   
 
The General Equilibrium Effects of CBD Surface Parking Lots
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Sofia Franco, UCI Lecturer
 
 
 
 
 
20
 
Nov
 
   
 
Racialized and Gendered (Il)legality: Experiences of Central Asian Migrant Women in Russia?
 
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 4250 | Victor Agadjanian, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
 
 
 
 
 
20
 
Nov
 
   
 
Minimum wages: Imperfect Markets and Imperfect Institutions
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Luis Munguia, UCI Graduate Student
 
 
 
 
 
26
 
Nov
 
   
 
Who Benefited from Women's Suffrage?
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Elira Kuka, SMU
 
 
 
 
 
26
 
Nov
 
   
 
Inference on Winners
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | Isaiah Andrews, Harvard University
 
 
 
 
 
26
 
Nov
 
   
 
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
 
6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. | UCI Student Center, Emerald Bay Conference Room AB | Alissa Quart, Author and Columnist
 
 
 
 
 
27
 
Nov
 
   
 
Unemployment Insurance and Migration
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Neil Bennett, UCI Graduate Student
 
 
 
 
 
27
 
Nov
 
   
 
Underemployment and Student Loans
 
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Paul Jackson, UCI Graduate Student
 
 
 
 
 
29
 
Nov
 
   
 
Google's Adwords Market: How Theory Influenced Practice
 
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Vijay V. Vazirani, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science Department, UCI