2021 University Faculty Award Recipient

Veronica Terriquez, PhD
University of California, Santa Cruz

Veronica Terriquez, PhD is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University California Santa Cruz and current fellow at the Stanford Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.  She received her PhD in Sociology at UCLA, her Master's degree in Education at UC Berkeley, and her BA in Sociology at Harvard University.  Her research focuses on social inequality, civic engagement, and immigrant integration. Informed by over two decades of connections to social justice movements in California, much of her research has implications for local and regional policies affecting Latinx, immigrant, and other low-income communities of color. Her research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Social Science & Medicine, Community Development, Education Policy, and other journals.  She is currently writing a book on how grassroots youth organizing is shaping the political incorporation of second-generation immigrant youth. Additionally, Dr. Terriquez has co-authored with colleagues and students over 40 widely disseminated research reports on labor, community, and youth organizing. In the fall of 2021, she will begin an appointment as the Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, with affiliations to the Chicana/o and Central American Studies Department and Urban Planning Department.  

 January 2021