Jacob Hibel

Jacob Hibel is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is co-director of the UC Davis Center for Poverty and Inequality Research. He is also a faculty member of the Graduate Group in Education and has been a sociologist and demographer for the Migration Research Cluster at UC Davis. His current research focuses on large-scale immigration's consequences for children, schools, and communities. He is particularly interested in community-level effects: the consequences of living and attending school in an immigrant-rich community versus one with lower historical immigration levels. Hibel received his BA in sociology from Johns Hopkins University and an MA and PhD in sociology and demography from Pennsylvania State University.

updated 2025