2011

Caitlin Patler is a doctoral student in the UCLA Department of Sociology. She uses mixed methods to analyze the impacts of immigration status on the lives on undocumented young adults in the U.S. Patler is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellow, and a researcher with UC-ACCORD. Before graduate school, Patler spent six years working for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), where she helped develop the first statewide network of undocumented students in the nation. In 2010, Patler published "Alliance-Building and Organizing for Immigrant Rights: The Case of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles" in Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy (Milkman et. al., Eds., Cornell University Press). The Paula Stone Legal Research Fellowship will support Patler’s current project “Undocumented & Unafraid: Immigrant Young Women Mobilize the Law.” Patler received her B.A. in Sociology and Chicana/o Studies from UCLA in 2003, and her M.A. in Sociology from UCLA in 2009. Patler is tremendously grateful to the hundreds of undocumented students who have shared their stories with her, and is committed to fighting beside all of you in our collective struggle for justice.

Cassia P. Roth is a Ph.D. student in the History Department and a concentrator in Women’s Studies at UCLA. Her dissertation connects socioeconomic changes during turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro to women’s reproductive practices, while focusing on the structural inequalities inherent in a class- and race-based society. This project will investigate how and why the Brazilian state criminalized reproductive practices, mainly abortion and infanticide, from 1830-1940. This project uses both Brazilian criminal code and criminal investigations and court cases of abortion and infanticide to examine both changes in the Penal Code and its actual jurisprudence.