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Nicolas Gutierrez III

Ph.D. Student
Nicolas Gutierrez III
Pronouns He / Him / His Email ng73047@usc.edu

Biography

Nicolas Gutierrez III is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Southern California, where he is a USC Provost’s Fellow and W.E.B. DuBois & Ida B. Wells-Barnett Graduate Scholar. He is currently a Graduate Community-Engaged Research Fellow at the USC Equity Research Institute and the Media Director at SDSU’s Project for Sanitation Justice. Nicolas is a participant in the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty’s 2024-25 Professional Development Training Series on Poverty and Economic Mobility Research.

Nicolas researches the criminalization of unsheltered homelessness, frontline policy implementation, and mutual aid. His work has been published in the International Journal on Homelessness, Public Integrity, and Scholars Strategy Network. His research has also been featured in the Voice of San Diego, CBS 8, NBC 7, inewsource, and Televisa Californias.

He earned an M.S. in Criminal Justice and Criminology from San Diego State University and a B.A. in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He has previously been named a CSU Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar, UCLA Summer Research Fellow, Public Administration Theory Network Fellow, and the 2021-22 Most Outstanding Master’s Student by the SDSU Criminal Justice & Criminology faculty.

Education

  • M.S. San Diego State University
  • B.A. University of California, Irvine

  • Research Keywords

    Urban Sociology; Criminology; Social Movements; Homelessness; Criminalization & Policing; Qualitative Methods

  • Journal Article

    • Welsh Carroll, M., Flanigan, S. T., Gutierrez III, N. (2022). Black Lives Experiencing Homelessness Matter: A Critical Conceptual Framework for Understanding How Policing Drives System Avoidance among Vulnerable Populations. Public Integrity. Vol. 25 (3), pp. 285-300.
    • Adams, B., Welsh Carroll, M., Gutierrez III, N. (2023). Community Acceptance of, and Opposition to, Homeless-Serving Facilities. International Journal on Homelessness. Vol. 3 (2), pp. 1-28.

    Research Report

    • Adams, B., Welsh Carroll, M., Gutierrez III, N. (2021). Community Acceptance and Opposition to Homeless-Serving Facilities. Social and Economic Vulnerabilities Initiative.

    Other

    • Gutierrez III, N., Adams, B., Welsh Carroll, M. (2022). Understanding Community Acceptance of and Opposition to Homeless-Serving Facilities. Scholars Strategy Network.

  • Committees

    • Co-Chair, Race and Gender Committee, USC Sociology Graduate Student Association, 2023 –
    • Member, Colloquium Committee, USC Department of Sociology, 2024-2025

  • Professional Memberships

    • American Sociological Association, 2022 –
    • Scholars Strategy Network, 2022 –
    • American Society of Criminology, 2021 –
    • Latina/o/x Criminology, 2021 –
    • Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020 –