Bio

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.

Academic Appointments

Professional Education

  • PhD, Harvard University, Sociology and Social Policy
  • AM, Harvard University, Sociology
  • BAS, Stanford University, Sociology and Mathematics

Contact

  • Academic
    jihwang@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Sociology Position: Associate Professor
    • 450 Serra Mall
    • Building 120, Room 250A
    • Stanford,  California  94305 

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 4900
  • Other Names:
    Jackie Hwang

Links

2024-25 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • The Reign of Racialized Residential Sorting: Gentrification and Residential Mobility in the Twenty-First Century CITY & COMMUNITY Hwang, J., Zhang, I. H. 2024

    View details for DOI 10.1177/15356841241276390

    View details for Web of Science ID 001333975500001

  • Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco CITY & COMMUNITY Dahir, N., Hwang, J. 2024

    View details for DOI 10.1177/15356841241260036

    View details for Web of Science ID 001274431400001

  • Cleaning Up the Neighborhood: White Influx and Differential Requests for Services SOCIUS Dahir, N., Hwang, J., Yu, A. 2024; 10

    View details for DOI 10.1177/23780231231223436

    View details for Web of Science ID 001156957000001

  • Systematic Social Observation at Scale: Using Crowdsourcing and Computer Vision to Measure Visible Neighborhood Conditions SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY Hwang, J., Naik, N. 2023; 53 (2): 183-216

    View details for DOI 10.1177/00811750231160781

    View details for Web of Science ID 001027993300001

  • Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery( 1 ) SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS & RESEARCH Hwang, J., Dahir, N., Sarukkai, M., Wright, G. 2023

    View details for DOI 10.1177/00491241231171945

    View details for Web of Science ID 001002831600001

  • Shared and Crowded Housing in the Bay Area: Where Gentrification and the Housing Crisis Meet COVID-19 HOUSING POLICY DEBATE Hwang, J., Shrimali, B. 2022

    View details for DOI 10.1080/10511482.2022.2099934

    View details for Web of Science ID 000834877900001

  • Racialized Reshuffling: Urban Change and the Persistence of Segregation in the Twenty-First Century ANNUAL REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY Hwang, J., McDaniel, T. W. 2022; 48: 397-419

    View details for DOI 10.1146/annurev-soc-030420-014126

    View details for Web of Science ID 000835888200020

  • GENTRIFICATION WITHOUT SEGREGATION? RACE, IMMIGRATION, AND RENEWAL IN A DIVERSIFYING CITY. City & community Hwang, J. 2020; 19 (3): 538-572

    Abstract

    Research on how neighborhood racial composition affects where gentrification unfolds yields mixed conclusions, but these studies either capture broad national trends or highly segregated cities. Drawing on the case of Seattle-a majority-white city with low segregation levels and growing ethnoracial diversity, this study uncovers an underexplored mechanism shaping patterns of uneven development and residential selection in the contemporary city: immigrant replenishment. The share of all minorities is negatively associated with gentrification during the 1970s and 1980s, and, in contrast to expectations, shares of blacks positively predicts recent gentrification while shares of Asians negatively predicts it. Increased concentrations of recent immigrants in neighborhoods with greater shares of Asians explain these relationships. These findings suggest that where arriving immigrants move limits residential selection in gentrification and shifts pressures to low-cost black neighborhoods. This study highlights how immigration and points of entry are important factors for understanding uneven development in the contemporary city and has implications for the future of racial stratification as cities transform.

    View details for DOI 10.1111/cico.12419

    View details for PubMedID 33041694

    View details for PubMedCentralID PMC7546340

  • Unequal Displacement: Gentrification, Racial Stratification, and Residential Destinations in Philadelphia(1) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY Hwang, J., Ding, L. 2020; 126 (2): 354–406

    View details for DOI 10.1086/711015

    View details for Web of Science ID 000595193200004

  • Racialized Recovery: Postforeclosure Pathways in Boston Neighborhoods CITY & COMMUNITY Hwang, J. 2019

    View details for DOI 10.1111/cico.12472

    View details for Web of Science ID 000501986300001

  • Pioneers of Gentrification: Transformation in Global Neighborhoods in Urban America in the Late Twentieth Century DEMOGRAPHY Hwang, J. 2016; 53 (1): 189-213

    Abstract

    Few studies have considered the role of immigration in the rise of gentrification in the late twentieth century. Analysis of U.S. Census and American Community Survey data over 24 years and field surveys of gentrification in low-income neighborhoods across 23 U.S. cities reveal that most gentrifying neighborhoods were "global" in the 1970s or became so over time. An early presence of Asians was positively associated with gentrification; and an early presence of Hispanics was positively associated with gentrification in neighborhoods with substantial shares of blacks and negatively associated with gentrification in cities with high Hispanic growth, where ethnic enclaves were more likely to form. Low-income, predominantly black neighborhoods and neighborhoods that became Asian and Hispanic destinations remained ungentrified despite the growth of gentrification during the late twentieth century. The findings suggest that the rise of immigration after 1965 brought pioneers to many low-income central-city neighborhoods, spurring gentrification in some neighborhoods and forming ethnic enclaves in others.

    View details for DOI 10.1007/s13524-015-0448-4

    View details for Web of Science ID 000369426000008

    View details for PubMedID 26689938

    View details for PubMedCentralID PMC4742432

  • The Social Construction of a Gentrifying Neighborhood: Reifying and Redefining Identity and Boundaries in Inequality URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW Hwang, J. 2016; 52 (1): 98-128

    View details for DOI 10.1177/1078087415570643

    View details for Web of Science ID 000367481000004

  • Racial and Spatial Targeting: Segregation and Subprime Lending within and across Metropolitan Areas SOCIAL FORCES Hwang, J., Hankinson, M., Brown, K. S. 2015; 93 (3): 1081-1108

    View details for DOI 10.1093/sf/sou099

    View details for Web of Science ID 000351528800039

  • Divergent Pathways of Gentrification: Racial Inequality and the Social Order of Renewal in Chicago Neighborhoods AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW Hwang, J., Sampson, R. J. 2014; 79 (4): 726-751

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0003122414535774

    View details for Web of Science ID 000341813500007

  • Psycho-behavioral responses to urban scenes: An exploration through eye-tracking CITIES Tavakoli, A., Douglas, I. P., Noh, H., Hwang, J., Billington, S. L. 2025; 156

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105568

    View details for Web of Science ID 001352822300001

  • CityPulse: Fine-Grained Assessment of Urban Change with Street View Time Series Huang, T., Wu, Z., Wu, J., Hwang, J., Rajagopal, R., Wooldridge, M., Dy, J., Natarajan, S. ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 2024: 22123-22131

    View details for Web of Science ID 001239985800028

  • Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW Freeman, L., Hwang, J., Haupert, T., Zhang, I. 2023

    View details for DOI 10.1177/10780874231169921

    View details for Web of Science ID 000973338000001

  • Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods (Book Review) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY Book Review Authored by: Hwang, J. 2021; 126 (6): 1499-1501

    View details for DOI 10.1086/714030

    View details for Web of Science ID 000658835600011

  • Effects of gentrification on homeowners: Evidence from a natural experiment REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS Ding, L., Hwang, J. 2020; 83

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2020.103536

    View details for Web of Science ID 000540872700004

  • Indigenous Places and the Making of Undocumented Status in Mexico-US Migration INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW Asad, A. L., Hwang, J. 2019; 53 (4): 1032–77

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0197918318801059

    View details for Web of Science ID 000500036500003

  • Migration to the United States from Indigenous Communities in Mexico ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Asad, A. L., Hwang, J. 2019; 684 (1): 120–45

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0002716219848342

    View details for Web of Science ID 000474673300007

  • A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona (Book Review) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY Book Review Authored by: Hwang, J. 2019; 124 (6): 1890–92

    View details for Web of Science ID 000473709200026

  • RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND THE ROLE OF HOUSING POLICY HOW PUBLIC POLICY IMPACTS RACIAL INEQUALITY Hwang, J., Roberto, E., Rugh, J. S., Grimm, J., Loke, J. 2019: 28–55

    View details for Web of Science ID 000471902700003

  • Gentrification and residential mobility in Philadelphia REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS Ding, L., Hwang, J., Divringi, E. 2016; 61: 38-51

    Abstract

    Gentrification has provoked considerable controversy surrounding its effects on residential displacement. Using a unique individual-level, longitudinal data set, this study examines mobility rates and residential destinations of residents in gentrifying neighborhoods during the recent housing boom and bust in Philadelphia for various strata of residents and different types of gentrification. We find that vulnerable residents, those with low credit scores and without mortgages, are generally no more likely to move from gentrifying neighborhoods compared with their counterparts in nongentrifying neighborhoods. When they do move, however, they are more likely to move to lower-income neighborhoods. Residents in gentrifying neighborhoods at the aggregate level have slightly higher mobility rates, but these rates are largely driven by more advantaged residents. These findings shed new light on the heterogeneity in mobility patterns across residents in gentrifying neighborhoods and suggest that researchers should focus more attention on the quality of residential moves and nonmoves for less advantaged residents, rather than mobility rates alone.

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2016.09.004

    View details for Web of Science ID 000389110100004

    View details for PubMedID 28579662

    View details for PubMedCentralID PMC5450830

  • What Have We Learned about the Causes of Recent Gentrification? CITYSCAPE Hwang, J., Lin, J. 2016; 18 (3): 9-26
  • The Consequences of Gentrification: A Focus on Residents’ Financial Health in Philadelphia CITYSCAPE Ding, L., Hwang, J. 2016; 18 (3): 27-55
  • Gentrification in Changing Cities: Immigration, New Diversity, and Racial Inequality in Neighborhood Renewal ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Hwang, J. 2015; 660 (1): 319-340

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0002716215579823

    View details for Web of Science ID 000356255600017