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1222 WATKINS HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Estrada Correa, Vanesa

Assistant Professor of Sociology

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Sociology


Biography

Professor Estrada's interests are in social stratification, race/ethnicity, migration, demography, urban sociology and public policy. Her current work focuses on aspects of racial stratification related to housing and neighborhoods. Her recent studies include racial inequalities in homeownership trends, racial disparities in real estate and mortgage lending outcomes, and the implications of residential mobility patterns for racial segregation, immigrant assimilation and health outcomes. She is currently studying the impacts of the housing crisis on the Inland Empire, particularly focusing on neighborhood change resulting from foreclosures.

Former Institution

University of California Los Angeles

Degrees

BA Human Biology 2001

Stanford University

MA Sociology 2004

University of California, Los Angeles

PhD Sociology 2007

University of California, Los Angeles

Awards

RAND Postdoctoral Fellowship in Population Studies, 2007
NICHD Traineeship, California Center for Population Research, UCLA, 2006
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award (with David Cort). Southern Demographic Association, 2003
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 2002-2005
Eugene Cota Robles Award, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001


Research Area

Social Stratification, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Demography, Urban Sociology, Social Policy, Quantitative Methods

Publications

Lopez, David and Vanesa Estrada. 2007. “Language” Pp. 228-242 in Mary Waters and Reed Ueda (eds.) New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.