Bryan L. Sykes is an Inclusive Excellence Term Chair Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society of the School of Social Ecology. His research focuses on demography and criminology, broadly defined, with particular interests in fertility, mortality, population health, mass imprisonment, social inequality, and research methodology. He applies and develops demographic, statistical, and mixed methodologies to understand changing patterns of inequality — nationally and abroad. Professor Sykes is currently collaborating on four projects. He is leading a $1.62M research study —  a randomized control trial (RCT) or field experiment —  in six California counties, exploring the effects of economic, socioeconomic, and informational inequality on court-order compliance, in the case of hidden monetary sanctions in the criminal legal system (see Shadow Costs for more details). The second project explores the limits of mixed-methods, or dual design studies, in social science research. The third project assesses how mass incarceration has affected measures of social inequality and demographic processes (fertility, mortality, and morbidity) among subpopulations with the highest risk of criminal justice contact in America, which has led to the development of new demographic methods for multiple-partner fertility; new statistical methods for estimating mortality in differential population environments; and new sampling weights for national surveys that exclude marginal populations.  The final project investigates how national, regional, and global patterns of mortality, morbidity, and injuries have changed over time.

Brittany N. Morey, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at University of California, Irvine. Dr. Morey’s research focuses on how structural racism shapes racial and ethnic health inequities. Much of this work focuses on how social and physical environments contribute to health inequities, especially for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Her work also studies how U.S. immigration policies and anti-immigrant sentiments contribute to health disparities among broad populations of color. Overall, the goal of her research is to understand how society creates health inequities along the lines of race, ethnicity, nativity, and immigration status. With this understanding, we can create better policies and programs to address and undo the patterns of poor health we see today.

Edward Telles is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and former professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Telles has reoriented the field of Sociology beyond the U.S. black-white paradigm through his research and writings on color, race and ethnicity globally, particularly in Latin America and for Latinos in the United States. A recipient of numerous awards in the field of immigration and race, Telles’ work has been hailed as path-breaking. The principal investigator on the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA), his work has been closely empirical and based mostly on social surveys, several of which he collected. Professor Telles’ work is well known in Latin America, and has been widely published in Spanish and Portuguese.