#  Maria Guadalupe Rendon 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Maria Rendon's Website](https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/rendon/) 

 

 



 

 (Sociology & Social Policy, June 2009)  
*Thesis Title:* Second Generation Optimism and the Reproduction of a Working Class: The Case of Mexican-Americans in High Poverty Neighborhoods  
*Committee:* Mary C. Waters (chair), Robert J. Sampson, William Julius Wilson, and Xavier de Souza-Briggs  
*Initial Placement*: Scholar in Health Policy Research, University of California-Berkeley  
*Current Position:* [Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy and Design and Sociology, School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine](http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/mgrendon)



 

 

 





 

 

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