Alice O'Connor
· Professor and Director, UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and DemocracyUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · History
Active 1970–2024
About
Alice O'Connor is a professor and the director of the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy. She earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1991. Her research and teaching focus on inequality and public policy in the 20th and early 21st century United States. Her work explores the dynamics of wealth and poverty, social and urban policy, the politics of knowledge, the history of organized philanthropy, and the political economy of housing. As the director of the Blum Center, she participates in efforts to foster collaborative, community-engaged research, policy analysis, and collective action aimed at advancing social, economic, health, environmental, and civic equity and justice on California's Central Coast. She teaches core and elective courses related to the history of public policy and law, as well as the department's Minor in Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice, which is supported by the Blum Center.
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