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Geography professor receives prestigious grant for Skid Row research
Dr. Deshonay Dozier, an assistant professor in the geography department, recently received a project development grant from the American Council of Learned Societies to support her research on homeless activism in Los Angeles. The $5,000 grant goes to faculty at teaching-intensive universities who are conducting research in humanistic studies and interpretive social sciences and can be used for any costs that support the research. Dr. Dozier, who has a doctorate in environmental psychology and focuses on social and cultural geography, will use the grant to
continue her work delving into the history and current dynamics of Los Angeles’s Skid Row. “What I’m trying to uplift is how homeless people reshape the penal organization of their lives by putting forth alternative visions for Los Angeles,” Dr. Dozier says. “I’m tracing that from the 1930s to today.” At the Huntington Library, for instance, she reviews policy briefs and correspondence in collections such as the Kenneth Hahn Administration Papers to investigate how activists seek to intervene in the public administration of homeless services. continued on page 14 ASPIRE
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