Veronica Lerma

Education

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Merced, 2022
• M.A., Sociology, University of California, Merced, 2015
• B.A., Sociology, University of the Pacific, 2013

Research Focus

Criminalization; Critical Carceral Studies; Intersectionality; Education; Latinx Sociology; Qualitative Research Methods

Publications

• Lerma, Veronica. 2022. “Intersectional Criminalization: How Chicanas Experience and Navigate Criminalization through Relationships with Latino Men and Boys.” Sociological Perspectives 66(2):311-330.

• Hamilton, Laura T., Kelly Nielsen, and Veronica Lerma. 2022. “‘Diversity is a Corporate Plan:’ Racialized Equity Labor among University Employees.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 46(6):1204-1226.

• Nielsen, Kelly, Laura T. Hamilton, and Veronica Lerma. 2021. “Tolerable Suboptimization: The Racial Consequences of Defunding Public Universities.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 7(4):561-578.

• Lerma, Veronica. 2021. “Student Labor and Centers of Support.” In Broke: The Racial Consequences of Defunding the New University. By Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Lerma, Veronica, Laura T. Hamilton, and Kelly Nielsen. 2020. “Racialized Equity Labor, University Appropriation, and Student Resistance.” Social Problems 67(2):268-303.

Teaching

• SOC 172: Intersections of Race, Gender, & Class
• SOC 150: Criminology
• SOC 195: Intersectional Criminalization

Awards

• UC Davis Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship, 2023-2024
• ASA’s Section on Race, Gender, and Class Graduate Student Paper Award, 2022
• UC President’s HSI Pre-Professoriate Fellowship, 2020-2021
• Fletcher Jones Fellowship, 2019-2020
• William T. Grant Scholars Mentoring Grant, 2017-2019