Professor Laura T. Hamilton
University of California - Merced
Books and articles written by Professor Hamilton
Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Education, with Kelly Nielsen (2021)
"Tolerable Suboptimization: Racial Consequences of Defunding Public Universities," with Kelly Nielsen and Veronica Lerma, 2021, in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 7(4): 561-578
"Racialized Equity Labor, University Appropriation and Student Resistance," with Veronica Lerma and Kelly Nielsen, 2019, in Social Problems 67(2): 286-303
Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College and Beyond (2016)
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality, with Elizabeth A. Armstrong (2015)
Readings mentioned by Professor Hamilton
Racial Formation in the United States, 3rd ed., by Michael Omi and Howard Winant (2014)
Designing the New American University, by Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars (2018)
Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education, by Charlie Eaton (2022)
Suggested links for more information
UIC United Faculty (union)
UIC United Faculty Committee on Political Education (political action committee)
Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois System (Spring 2022)
UC Riverside open letter to UC System president about "academic redlining"
Illinois 2015-2017 budget issues explanation
Graphs looking at funding of public universities in Illinois (and the US)
Historical State Appropriations for Illinois Public Universities
Revenue sources by sector (All states)
