Iris Zhang
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I am a 7th year PhD candidate here at Stanford Sociology. I employ quantitative, qualitative, and experimental methods to answer questions about the gap between laws and policies in intention and their actual impact. The Changing Cities Research Lab (CCRL) is my intellectual home at Stanford.
In my dissertation, I investigate the consequences of stratification in the housing market for vulnerable groups using restricted-access longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and interviews with low-income Oakland renters. Some of these projects are funded in part by Stanford Impact Labs and are in partnership with the City of Oakland's Department of Housing and Community Development. Related work in this vein has been published in Urban Affairs Review or forthcoming at City & Community.
My masters paper, “The Limitations of Preclearance: Municipal Annexations Before and After Shelby v. Holder,” is a project on municipal annexations using analyses of Census place- and block-level shapefiles and Census/ACS demographic data across two decades, covering the period before and after the landmark Supreme Court case, Shelby v. Holder. It is published at the Du Bois Review. Online article here. Replication repository here.
In another project, with collaborators at UC-Irvine led by Naomi Sugie and funded through the National Science Foundation, the Skyline Foundation, and Public Agenda, we use novel text messaging experiments to examine barriers towards voting among system-impacted people across the United States, in partnership with the Alliance for Safety and Justice. Pre-registration of our 2022 field experiment here. Our first paper from the project is published in Punishment & Society.
With my collaborator Vas Kumar, I am currently working on a review paper on recruitment methods for qualitative interviews based on our experiences recruiting low-income Oakland renters to participate in in-depth interviews during the pandemic. Pre-registration of our review process for the paper available here.
My work has additionally been supported in part through fellowships from Stanford Impact Labs and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. I was an Equity and Inclusion student fellow at the 2021 APPAM conference and I received the VPGE Research and Teaching Award through Stanford's Asian American Activities Center in 2022. Prior to Stanford, I was a research associate at the Brennan Center for Justice.
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Publications (*equal authorship)
Clair, Matt, Jesus Orozco, and Iris H. Zhang. “Spatial burdens of state institutions: The case of criminal courthouses.” Forthcoming at Social Service Review.
Hwang, Jackelyn,* and Iris H. Zhang.* “The Reign of Racialized Residential Sorting: Gentrification and Residential Mobility in the 21st Century.” Forthcoming at City & Community. Online First. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15356841241276390.
Sugie, Naomi F., Juan R. Sandoval, Daniela Kaiser,* Delaney Mosca,* Kyle Winnen,* Emily Zhang,* and Iris H. Zhang.* 2024. “Accessing the Right to Vote Among System-Impacted People.” Punishment & Society 26(4):711-731. https://journals-sagepub-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1177/14624745241230199.
Zhang, Iris H. 2024. “The Limitations of Preclearance: Municipal Annexations Before and After Shelby v. Holder.” Du Bois Review 21(1):24-49. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15356841241276390.
Freeman, Lance, Jackelyn Hwang, Tyler Haupert, and Iris H. Zhang. 2024. “Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods.” Urban Affairs Review 60(1):304-348. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874231169921.
Policy Reports
Scholars Strategy Network Policy Brief: https://scholars.org/contribution/rent-controls-expansion-and-need-local-control
Chapple, Karen, Jackelyn Hwang, Jae Sik Jeon, Iris H. Zhang, Julia Greenberg, and Bina P. Shrimali. 2022. “Housing Market Interventions and Residential Mobility in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community Development Working Paper 2022-1. doi: 10.24148/cdwp2022-01.
Hwang, Jackelyn, Iris H. Zhang, Jae Sik Jeon, Karen Chapple, Julia Greenberg, and Vasudha Kumar. 2022. “Research Brief: Who Benefits from Tenant Protections? The Effects of Rent Stabilization and Just Cause for Evictions on Residential Mobility in the Bay Area.”
Hwang, Jackelyn, Iris H. Zhang, Jae Sik Jeon, Karen Chapple, Julia Greenberg, and Vasudha Kumar. 2022. “Research Brief: Affordable for Whom? How New Subsidized Housing Production Affects Displacement and Replacement in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
Chapple, Karen, Jackelyn Hwang, Iris H. Zhang, Jae Sik Jeon, Julia Greenberg, and Vasudha Kumar. 2022. “Research Brief: Analyzing the Impacts of Housing Production and Tenant Protections on Residential Mobility in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
Chapple, Karen, Jackelyn Hwang, Iris H. Zhang, Jae Sik Jeon, Julia Greenberg, and Vasudha Kumar. 2022. “Research Brief: New Development for Whom? How New Housing Production Affects Displacement and Replacement in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
Chapple, Karen, Jackelyn Hwang, Jae Sik Jeon, Iris H. Zhang, Julia Greenberg, and Vasudha Kumar. 2022. “Research Brief: But Where Are They To Go? The Effects of Housing Market Interventions on Where Bay Area Residents Move.”