CPIP’s Visiting Scholars Program

The Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy (CPIP) welcomes Visiting Scholars. Faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students from other institutions of higher education who are actively engaged in population studies research are welcome to apply. 

Individuals with a CPIP visiting scholar appointment will be given a UCInetID, which is required for internet access, library access, and parking permit eligibility. The minimum stay is one month.

To request to become a CPIP visiting scholar, submit the following: 

  • Intellectual rationale for the visit (a short statement of 250 words or one paragraph)
  • Sponsorship for your visit from a CPIP affiliate, and letter from your sponsor attesting to this, and explaining how you will be integrated into the social and intellectual life of CPIP, including workshop and seminar opportunities
  • Dates of proposed visit
  • CV of proposed visiting scholar
  • What is needed from CPIP (e.g., work space, visa application support, etc.)

Visiting scholar requests should be submitted at least three months prior to the start date. 

 

Visiting Poverty Scholars Program sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty

The Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy has hosted visiting scholars on campus for one week through a visiting poverty scholars program sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Anna R. Haskins

Anna R. Haskins is the Andrew V. Tackes Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Initiative on Race and Resilience at the University of Notre Dame. Her research examines how three of America’s most powerful social institutions—the education system, the family, and the criminal legal system—connect and interact in ways that both preserve and mitigate social inequality, with emphasis on early educational outcomes, intergenerational impacts, and disparities by race/ethnicity. She visited in February 2025.

Brian Holzman

Dr. Brian Holzman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University. His research examines the pathway to college, paying particular attention to first-and second-generation immigrants, English learners, students of color, and students from socioeconomically marginalized backgrounds. He completed an M.A. in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education and Higher Education Administration at Stanford University. He visited CPIP in January 2025.

Stephanie L. Canizales

Stephanie L. Canizales was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Merced when she visited UCI and is now at University of California at Berkeley. Stephanie specializes in migration and immigrant incorporation, children and youth, inequality, poverty, and mobility, race/ethnicity, and organizations. Her book project, entitled Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, systematically examines why undocumented, unaccompanied Central American and Mexican youth migrate to Los Angeles, California, and how they incorporate into school, work, family, and community life as they come of age without parents.  Her next project will more closely analyze youths’ experiences as labor migrants, their entry into and participation in the U.S. workforce and economy, and to further investigate the strategies youth employ to navigate poverty and mobility in a timely manner. She specializes in migration and immigrant integration, children and youth, inequality, poverty, mobility, and race and ethnicity. She visited CPIP in 2020-2021.

Anita Mukherjee

Anita Mukherjee was an Assistant Professor in Department of Risk and Insurance, Wisconsin School of Business, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison when she visited UCI. She conducts research on household finance, retirement, and aging. She also has a stream of research using applied microeconomics to inform public policy related to prisons and the opioid crisis. Her research covers both the US and emerging markets. Mukherjee earned her Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in 2014. She visited the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute, one of CPIP's predecessors in 2018-2019.