Dr. Varisa Patraporn

Courses:

  • Introduction to Research Methods (SOC 270)
  • Research Methods (SOC 354, 355, 696)
  • Urban and Social Policy Analysis (SOC 353)

Research Interests:

  • Race/Ethnicity and Immigration
  • Asian American Places
  • Community Engaged Research
  • Housing and Community Economic Development

Education:

  • B.A. (cum laude)in Political Science (Honors) and Sociology, UC Irvine
  • Master of Public Policy, UCLA
  • Ph.D. Urban Planning, UCLA

 

Selected publications:

Lin, May and Patraporn, R.V. (2022). The Invest in Youth Ƶ Coalition: Youth of Color at the Forefront of Anti-Racist Governance and Planning. Special Issue: Anti-Racist Futures, Journal of American Planning Association. Online First. 1-14. 

López, C.M., Patraporn, R.V. and Weng, S. (2022). The Impact of Housing Crisis on the Well-Being of 1.5 Generation Immigrants in Southern California. Housing Policy Debate. Online First. 

López, C.M., Patraporn, R.V., Lim, K.**, and Khan, K.** 2022. “Walking to Build a Critical Community-Engaged Project: Collaborative Observations of Neighborhood Change in Ƶ, California” Social Sciences 11, no. 5: 183.   

**Undergraduate students.

Patraporn, R. V., & Kim, B. W. (2021). Resurgent Ethnicity and Residential Choice Among Second-generation Asian Americans in a Los Angeles Panethnic Suburb. Urban Affairs Review, 58, no. 3: 861-887 First.  

-2022 Social Sciences Faculty Research Article Award, Association for Asian American Studies.  

Patraporn, R. V., Ong, P. M., & Pech, C. (2021). . Asian American Policy Review, 31(1), 43-55.

Patraporn, R. V. (2019)   AAPI Nexus Journal. 16 (No. 1&2):1-34. 

Lee, A.C. and Patraporn, R.V. (2019) AAPI Nexus Journal. 16 (No. 1&2), 85-110.

Patraporn, R.V., Tran, D.L. and Ong, P.M. (2015).  AAPI Nexus Journal. 13(No. 1&2), 122-148.

Patraporn, R. V. (2015). Complex transactions: Community development financial institutions lending to ethnic entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. Community Development, 46(5), 479–498.

Patraporn, R.V., Ong, P.M. and Pech, C. (2014). “The Complexity of Asian American Wealth: The Role of Ethnicity and Immigration in Understanding Within Group Disparities” (Ford Foundation Building Economic Security Over the Lifetime Policy Report) UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

Patraporn, R.V., Tran, D.L. and Ong, P.M. (2013). “”  (Ford Foundation Building Economic Security Over the Lifetime Policy Report), UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

 Patraporn, R. V., Pfeiffer, D., & Ong, P. (2010). Building Bridges to the Middle Class: The Role of Community-Based Organizations in Asian American Wealth Accumulation. Economic Development Quarterly, 24(3), 288–303.

Ong, P.M. & Patraporn, R.V. (2010). Asian Americans & Wealth. In . University of Michigan Press.

Patraporn, R. V., Ong, P. M., & Houston, D. (2009). Asian American Policy Review, 18, 35-48.

 

Grants:

  • 2021 Co-Principal Investigator, (with Barbara Kim and Simon Kim), Project Resilience, Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution, Department of Education. $1,500,000

 

Honors and Awards:

  • Faculty Mentor Award, Special Recognition, Educational Opportunity Program, California State University, Ƶ, 2017, 2019
  • California State University, Ƶ, Sabbatical Award, 2019-2020
  • California State University, Ƶ, College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Intersections Grant, Role: Co-sponsor; Lead PI: Kimberly Kelly; Co-Sponsors: Kristy Shih, May Ling Halim, 2018-2019
  • California State University, Ƶ, College of Liberal Arts, Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Award, 2016-2022
  • Outstanding Graduating Doctoral Student, UCLA Department of Urban Planning, 2007
  • Fannie Mae Doctoral Student Travel Grant, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (declined), 2006
  • Selected Participant, Program in Quantitative Methods, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 2006
  • United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Fellow, Early Doctoral Research Grant Recipient, 2005
  • UCLA Graduate Division Quality of Education Grant, 2004-2007
  • Selected Participant, National Poverty Center Workshop, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004
  • UCLA Advisory Board Fellowship, 2003-2007
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development Predoctoral Fellow, 2005
  • Presidential Management Fellow, 2001-2003
  • Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, 2000
  • Woodrow Wilson/Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow, 1998