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PEOPLE >> Faculty
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Ellen Reese
Associate Professor in Sociology
Office: Watkins 1217
Phone:
951-827-2930
E-mail:
ellen.reese@ucr.edu
Ellen Reese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on the politics of welfare in the United States, past and present. Currently, she is writing a book manuscript (based on her dissertation) on the backlash against welfare in the 1950s. The book analyzes, through quantitative methods and comparative case studies, how race, class, and gender shaped the development of eligibility restrictions for Aid to Dependent Children (later called AFDC). She is also working on a series of research projects on contemporary welfare rights activism, which has been on the rise in many cities since the passage of the 1996 federal welfare reform act.
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