Immigration Professor Emily Ryo Awarded Carnegie Fellowship
Immigration law professor Emily Ryo (USC Gould School of Law) has been awarded a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship..
Recognized for her “exceptional promise, creativity and achievement,” Ryo is one of just 35 in the United States, honored with a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.
Ryo was selected for her innovative and cutting-edge research on unauthorized migration, the legal attitudes of noncitizens, and immigration detention. As a Carnegie Fellow, Ryo will work on a large-scale empirical study of the nature and consequences of U.S. immigration detention. One of the study’s goals is to investigate what immigration detention teaches noncitizens about the U.S. legal system, democratic values, and the rule of law.
The Andrew Carnegie Fellowships, announced today, provide $200,000 to the 35 scholars, journalists and public intellectuals. The recipients were selected based on the originality, promise, and potential impact of their proposals.
The fellowships “support high-caliber scholarship in the social sciences and humanities, making it possible for the recipients to devote time to research and writing that addresses pressing issues and cultural transitions affecting us at home and abroad,” according to Carnegie Corporation of New York, which established the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program.
An empirical legal scholar, Ryo has published widely in leading sociology and law journals. Her award-winning studies on unauthorized migration have been recognized as paradigm-shifting. Most recently, she led the first empirical study of long-term immigration detention and immigration bond hearings in Southern California. Her work has been covered by numerous media.
Ryo received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University. She served as a law clerk to the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced law at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton.
KJ