Jessica López-Espino

Education:

B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; M.Phil., Anthropology, New York University; Ph.D., Anthropology, New York University

Dissertation:

“Crawling over Broken Glass”: The Legal Experience of Child Reunification in a California Child Welfare Court

Thesis Advisor:

Sally Merry, Professor of Anthropology, New York University

Research Topic:

Latinx Experiences in a California Child Welfare Court

Mentor:

Susan Coutin, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

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