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Current Scholars
Dr. Rishi Awatramani
Rishi Awatramani received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University. His research examines the racial politics of the working-class, and historical patterns of social protest, globally and in the U.S. His research interests are in the fields of race and ethnicity, labor and social movements, urban sociology, and political economy.
Dr. Bethany Murray
Dr. Bethany Murray, PhD, is a Turpanjian Postdoctoral Fellow for the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California. Her scholarship examines the historical and contemporary interlockings of social work, policing, and the criminal legal system. Her research sits at the intersection of social welfare history, sociolegal studies, and critical carceral studies, with a particular focus on carceral governance and the intertwined governing logics of care and carcerality. Rather than positioning care and punishment as oppositional forces, her work examines how institutions of care are frequently mobilized alongside systems of surveillance, regulation, and social control. She situates the profession of social work as a key site where these tensions are negotiated, contested, and institutionalized.
Dr. Lucy Pei
Dr. Lucy Pei is a Community Power Postdoctoral Scholar at ERI. Lucy earned her Ph.D. in Informatics at UC Irvine, with a dissertation focused on transnational solidarity and labor organizing among workers made precarious by technology-mediated work. This project was based on a long-term ethnographic accompaniment with migrant gig worker organizers in Latin America. Lucy’s work also has sought to collaborate with communities to develop ways to engage openly with the downsides of technological intervention (i.e. “tech for good”) while still trying to more equitably distribute the benefits of technological innovation. Lucy’s research is in conversation with fields including informatics and information studies, human computer interaction and design, science and technology studies (STS), labor studies, and global studies.