Jackelyn Hwang

Associate Professor of Sociology

PhD, Harvard University

AM, Harvard University

BAS, Stanford University

Jackelyn Hwang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Changing Cities Research Lab. Jackelyn’s main research interests are in the fields of urban sociology, race and ethnicity, immigration, and inequality. In particular, her research uses innovative data, measures, and methods to answer: how do neighborhood-level dynamics that are typically racialized drive changes in US residential segregation? Her projects focus on how residential sorting mechanisms shape how gentrification unfolds over time and space, the consequences of gentrification on residential displacement, and developing data and measurement infrastructures for improving measures of gentrification, including developing automated methods using computer vision to measure visible neighborhood conditions and their changes over time from Google Street View imagery. By improving our understanding of urban change and segregation, her work aims to advance policy solutions that promote racial equity as cities change.

Jackelyn received her B.A.S. in Sociology and Mathematics from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University. After completing her Ph.D., she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Her research has been supported by the American Sociological Association, the Joint Center for Housing Studies, the National Science Foundation, among others. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, City & Community, Demography, Social Forces, Sociological Methods and Research, Sociological Methodology, and Urban Affairs Review, and other academic journals.

Latest Publications

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Hwang, Jackelyn, Nima Dahir, Mayuka Sarukkai, and Gabby Wright. 2023. “Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery.” Sociological Methods and Research, 52(3): 1155-200.

Hwang, Jackelyn and Bina P. Shrimali. 2023. “Shared and Crowded Housing in the Bay Area: Where Gentrification and the Housing Crisis Meet COVID-19.” Housing Policy Debate, 33(1): 164-93.

Hwang, Jackelyn and Nikhil Naik. 2023. “Systematic Social Observation at Scale: Using Crowdsourcing and Computer Vision to Measure Visible Neighborhood Conditions.” Sociological Methodology, 53(2): 183-216.

Hwang, Jackelyn and Tyler McDaniel. 2022. “Racialized Reshuffling: Urban Change and the Persistence of Segregation in the 21st Century.” Annual Review of Sociology, 48: 397-419.

Hwang, Jackelyn. 2020. “Gentrification without Segregation? Race, Immigration, and Renewal in a Diversifying City.” City & Community 19(3):538-72.

Hwang, Jackelyn and Lei Ding. 2020. "Unequal Displacement: Gentrification, Racial Stratification, and Residential Destinations in Philadelphia." American Journal of Sociology, 126(2): 354-406.

Hwang, Jackelyn. 2019. “Gentrification without Segregation? Race, Immigration, and Renewal in a Diversifying City.” City & Community. Advanced online publication. DOI: 10.1111/cico.12419.

Asad, Asad L., and Jackelyn Hwang. 2019. “Indigenous Places and the Making of Undocumented Status in Mexico-U.S. Migration.” International Migration Review 53(4): 1032-1077.

Asad, Asad L., and Jackelyn Hwang. 2019. “Migration to the United States from Indigenous Communities in Mexico.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 684: 120-145. DOI: 10.1177/0002716219848342.

Hwang, Jackelyn. 2019. “Racialized Recovery: Post-Foreclosure Pathways in Boston Neighborhoods.” City & Community, 18(4): 1287-313.

Asad, Asad L., and Jackelyn Hwang. 2018. "Indigenous Places and the Making of Undocumented Status in Mexico-US Migration." International Migration Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918318801059

Ding, Lei, Jackelyn Hwang, and Eileen Divringi. 2016. “Gentrification and Residential Mobility in Philadelphia.” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 61:38-51.

Hwang, Jackelyn. 2016. “Pioneers of Gentrification: Transformation in Global Neighborhoods in Urban America in the Late Twentieth Century.” Demography, 53(1):189-213.

Ding, Lei and Jackelyn Hwang. 2016. “The Consequences of Gentrification: A Focus on Residents’ Financial Health in Philadelphia.” Cityscape, 18(3): 27-55.

Hwang, Jackelyn. 2016. “The Social Construction of a Gentrifying Neighborhood: Reifying and Redefining Identity and Boundaries in Inequality.” Urban Affairs Review, 52(1):98-128.

Hwang, Jackelyn and Jeffrey Lin. 2016. “What Have We Learned about the Causes of Recent Gentrification?” Cityscape, 18(3): 9-26.

Hwang, Jackelyn. 2016. “While Some Things Change, Some Things Stay the Same: Reflections on the Study of Gentrification.” City & Community, 15(3): 226-30.

Hwang, Jackelyn. 2015. “Gentrification in Changing Cities: Immigration, New Diversity, and Racial Inequality in Neighborhood Renewal.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 660(1):319-340.

Hwang, Jackelyn, Michael Hankinson, and Kreg Steven Brown. 2015. “Racial and Spatial Targeting: Segregation and Subprime Lending within and across Metropolitan Areas.” Social Forces, 93(3): 1081-1108.

Hwang, Jackelyn and Robert J. Sampson. 2014. “Divergent Pathways of Gentrification: Racial Inequality and the Social Order of Renewal in Chicago Neighborhoods.” American Sociological Review, 79(4): 726-51.