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Current Fellows (2007-08)
The Udall Center Fellows for 2007-08, and their research topics, are:
• Mimi Nichter, associate professor of anthropology (and associate professor of public health and family and consumer science): developing policies to reduce smoking among college students
Nichter will study the effectiveness of campus tobacco policies and cessation programs relative to tobacco use among students at The University of Arizona.
• Mary Poulton, professor and department head of mining and geological engineering (and professor of geosciences): U.S. mineral resources policy
Poulton will examine U.S. mineral resources policy and its implications for global competitiveness, workforce development, and sustainable resource development, especially in terms of environmental protection and groundwater quality preservation.
• Jeff Sallaz, assistant professor of sociology: the labor of labor regulation
Sallaz will conduct an ethnographic study of the Phoenix office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to learn how the agency monitors and regulates the U.S. labor market.
• Marcela Vásquez-León, assistant research anthripologist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (and assistant research professor of Latin American studies): assessing the Marine Ecological Organizing Plan for the Gulf of California
Vásquez-León will undertake a preliminary analysis of how and to what extent climate information and perceptions of climate variability and change are incorporated into current policy mechanisms, specifically Mexico 's Marine Ecological Organizing Plan for the Gulf of California, for the sustainable management of fishery resources.
> Previous Fellows, 1990-2007
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