Education
Ph.D. Sociology
Student Fellow, Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dissertation: The Regulatory Politics of Homebased Moneymaking After the American Family Wage
Dissertation Award, American Sociological Association, 2024
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan, 2023
Bachelors of Arts, Political Economy
Bachelors of Arts, History
University of California, Berkeley
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2024 - Greta Krippner and Luis Flores. “Toward a Sociology of Contract.” Journal of Law and Political Economy 4(2): 779-819.
2024 - Luis Flores. “Zoning as a Labor Market Regulation.” Theory and Society 53(2): 357-394.
Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award, ASA Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology, 2023
Student Paper Award, ASA Section on Labor and Labor Movements, 2023
Student Paper Award, Honorable Mention, ASA Section on Community & Urban Sociology, 2023
Katherine Luke Best Paper Award, University of Michigan, Sociology, 2020
2022 - Luis Flores* and Neil Gross. “Problem Situation Misassessment and the U.S. Financial Crisis.” The New Pragmatist Sociology: Agency, Inquiry, and Democracy, Edited by Neil Gross, Isaac Reed, and Christopher Winship. Columbia University Press.
2022 - Amy Quandt, Annie J. Kenney, Luis Flores, Daniela Flores, and Mercy Villaseñor. “’We left the crops there lying in the field’: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Rural US-Mexico Border Region.” Journal of Rural Studies 95: 553-543.
Featured in: Civil Eats
2021 - Annie J. Kenney, Amy Quandt, Mercy Villaseñor, Daniela Flores, and Luis Flores. “Occupational Stressors and Access to COVID-19 Resources Among Commuting and Residential Hispanic/Latino Farmworkers in a US-Mexico Border Region.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(2): 763-778.
Featured in: Calexico Chronicle
*Equal authorship
Manuscripts In Preparation
“Beyond Exclusion: Land-Use and the Properties of Home Wealth.” (Preparing for re-submission).
Ronald Burt Student Paper Award, Honorable Mention, ASA Section on Economic Sociology, 2022
“The Crisis of Asset Homeownership: Changing Foundations of Landed Security in Neoliberal America.” (draft available)
“Of Risks and Rents: Associational Regulation and the Missing Stratification Science of Economic Democracy” (chapter for edited volume).
“From Informality to Authenticity: Immigrant Enterprise, Deregulatory Inclusion, and the Cunning of Labor Alienation” (writing in progress)
“Care in Our Backyard: The Rise of Home-Based Child Care Since the 1970s” (research in progress).
Shorter Writings and Book Reviews
2023 - [Book Review] “Saito, Leland T. (2022). Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
2022 - [Book Review] “Pettengill, Ryan S. (2020). Communists and Community: Activism in Detroit’s Labor Movement, 1941-1956.” Journal of Urban Affairs.
2022 - [With Amy Quandt]. “Op-Ed: Farmworkers Face Stress and Depression. The Pandemic Made It Worse.” Civil Eats. July 27.
2018 - [Book Review] “Desmond, Matthew. (2016). Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown Publishers.” Critical Planning Journal 23: 303-307.
2017 - “Crisis Democracy: Moral Struggle in American Politics.” Learn, Speak, Act: Blog of the College of Literature, Sciences and the Arts, University of Michigan.
2016 - “Households as Emergent Social Institutions: Musings on the Material Elements of a Social Structure”, Critical Realism Network Blog.
2015 - “An Archeology of Poverty for the Present,” in Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South. Ed. Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
2014 - “The Golden Age of San Francisco’s Digital Dockworkers,” Berkeley Journal of Sociology, November 20.
2014 - “Geographies of Tech Wealth: From San Francisco to Silicon Border,” Berkeley Planning Journal: Urban Fringe Blog, March 16, 2014.
Featured in Reuters’ “Political Risk Must-Read” list.
2014- Coauthor with Causa Justa/Just Cause. 2014. “Development without Displacement: Resisting Gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area,” Causa Justa/Just Cause and the Alameda County Department of Public Health.
Featured in: San Francisco Chronicle, Colorlines, East Bay Express
2012 - “The American University and the Establishment of Neoliberalism: The Persistence of Institutional Habits,” Berkeley Undergraduate Journal 25:2, 49-73.
Grand prize recipient in Fiax Lux: On the Same Page contest, UC Berkeley 2012
Grants and Fellowships
2023 University of California, Berkeley - Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
2022 Fellow - American Sociological Association, Minority Fellowship Program
2022 Alternate, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
2022 Summer Fellow - U-M Institute for Research on Women & Gender/Rackham Community of Scholars Fellowship
2020 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant - National Science Foundation ($15,999)
2020 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2019 Graduate Student Mentor Award - Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
2015 Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship Program - National Science Foundation
2014 Rackham Merit Fellowship - Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2013 Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize - University of California, Berkeley ($25,000)
Public Writing
I write a regular opinion column for my hometown paper, the Calexico Chronicle.