The Center for Poverty & Inequality Research hosts an annual
seminar series on poverty issues. We are pleased to welcome
faculty, researchers, and thought leaders to the UC Davis campus.
Most of our seminars are located in Andrews Conference Room, 2203
Social Sciences and Humanities Building, unless otherwise noted.
Parking Information: Daily parking is
available in the Quad Parking
Structure through the AggiePark website
or AMP app. The Andrews Conference Room is a short walk from the parking
structure.
Directions to Andrews Conference Room: Due
to ongoing building construction, access to Andrews Conference
Room is limited. Please use the back staircase, which is
currently the only entrance to the meeting room.
A map of the second floor is available
here. Follow the red arrow up the stairs to the green
hallway. The Andrews Conference Room is located at the end of the
hallway on the left. This first
floor map shows road and sidewalk closures due to
construction.
I am a Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell
Population Center at Cornell University. I completed my PhD in
economics at Columbia University in May 2026. My research
interests lie at the intersection of labor, health, and public
economics, with a focus on policies affecting the wellbeing of
low-income and otherwise vulnerable children. My work evaluates
how childhood circumstances perpetuate economic inequality and
how public policy can be used to promote the accumulation of
human capital for children, with the goal of improving economic
mobility.
Christina Ciocca Eller is an assistant professor of
sociology and social studies at Harvard University. A scholar of
institutions, organizations, and social inequality, her research
uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to address these
topics—especially in the context of U.S. higher education.
She previously served in the Biden-Harris Administration as
Assistant Director of Evidence and Policy in the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy.
I am a doctoral student at the Department of Public Health
Sciences. I am part of the research project ‘Reproduction of
inequality through linked lives (RELINK)’. My research is about
the effect of social mobility on health, and how it is influenced
by interpersonal relationships outside the family. My previous
research examined how peers and school system are associated with
inequalities, and how to improve access to healthy food to
prevent obesity in underserved, low-income communities.
