Isabel García Valdivia is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, Eugene and formerly a postdoctoral fellow at the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University and a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in [im]migration, race and ethnicity, social stratification, and the sociology of the life course.

Isabel’s research focuses on immigrants and their families. She is working on a manuscript on the late adulthood experiences of immigrants. Her first solo-authored article, Legal Power in Action: How Latinx Adult Children Mitigate the Effects of Parents’ Legal Status (Social Problems), won two student paper awards from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) and the American Sociological Association (ASA).

She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Chicanx/Latinx Studies and Sociology from Pomona College. Isabel’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development through the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University, the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, multiple UC Berkeley centers and institutes, and the Blum Center at UC Santa Barbara.