Yong Kim, the Henry Crown Visiting Associate Professor in the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to execute his proposal, “Analyzing Divergent Impacts of Los Angeles Housing Policy on Rents vs. House Prices.” Kim’s research will analyze how Los Angeles housing policies, like rent control and upzoning, create divergent price impacts on rent versus house prices.

Lynn Itagaki, Associate Professor of Literature and Gender Studies, contributed an essay, “The Incivility of Civility,” to Civility Unbound: Contesting a Democratic Value (NYU Press, 2026).

Michael Fortner, the Pamela B. Gann Associate Professor of Government and George R.

Jennifer Feitosa, Associate Professor of Psychological Science and Director of the METRICS Lab at CMC, participated in a roundtable discussion on “Navigating Academic Careers Across Borders,” at the 2025 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Global Psychological Science Summit,” with a summation of the discussion published in a 2026 APS article.

Angela Vossmeyer, the Rothacker Family Associate Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, published “Likelihood specification in simultaneous equation models for discrete data” with co-author Ivan Jeliazkov in the Journal of Econometrics. In the publication, Vossmeyer and Jeliakov derive the likelihood function of simultaneous equation models for discrete data as the invariant distribution of a suitably specified Markov process.

Minxin Pei P’12, the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and George R.

Under the direction of Ken Miller, Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government and the Rose Professor of State and Local Government, the Rose Institute has received a one-year $100,000 planning grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to study the implementation of L.A. County’s Measure G, the County’s major government restructuring and reform measure.

Henri Cole, the Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature, was named a finalist by the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for his poetry collection, “The Other Love” (2025, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The NBCC Award is presented annually to the finest books published in English in six categories: fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism.

Nicholas Buccola, Professor of Government and the Dr. Jules K. Whitehill Professor of Humanism & Ethics at CMC, was interviewed about his book, One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal (Princeton University Press, 2025), on NPR’s Code Switch program.

Aseema Sinha, Wagener Family Professor of Comparative Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow, published a chapter in the book, International Organizations and Peaceful Change in World Politics,edited by T. V. Paul, Anders Wivel, and Kai He (Cambridge University Press, 2025).