Academic Publications

† Equal authorship; * Then-graduate student or postdoc

Hwang, Jackelyn, Elizabeth Roberto, Francine I. Stephens*, and Jacob S. Rugh. 2026. “Integrating or Segregating? Gentrification, the Changing City-Suburb Divide, and Black Exceptionalism.” Social Forces.

Asad, Asad L., Filiz Garip, and Jackelyn Hwang. 2026. “Weather Extremes in Indigenous Communities in Mexico and Undocumented US Migration and Its Duration.” Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Hwang, Jackelyn and Hesu Yoon*. 2026. “Shifting and Persisting Neighborhood Hierarchies: Immigrant Influx and Neighborhood Renewal in the Twenty-First Century.” Sociological Perspectives, 69(1-3):69-93

Huang, Tianyuan*, Chad Zanocco*, Zhechang Wang,* Jackelyn Hwang, and Ram Rajagopol. 2025. “Built Environment Disparities are Amplified During Extreme Weather Recovery.” Nature, 648: 349-356.

Gersey, Julia*, Troy Zhong*, Jiale Zhang*, Jesse Codling*, Jackelyn Hwang, and Pei Zhang. 2025. “Human vs. Machine: Comparing Urban Condition Classification Methods from Vehicular Vision.” In the Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, pp. 427-430. 2025 Nov 11. 

Dahir, Nima*, Sharad Goel, Hao Sheng*, Keniel Yao, and Jackelyn Hwang. 2025. “Surveillance Camera Prevalence and Racial Diversity in Ten US Cities.” Nature Cities, 2(7): 662-670.

Hwang, Jackelyn† and Iris H. Zhang†*. 2025. “The Reign of Racialized Residential Sorting: Gentrification and Residential Mobility in the 21st Century.” City & Community, 24(2): 83-110. [Podcast]

Dahir, Nima* and Jackelyn Hwang. 2025. “Who Owns the Neighborhood? Racial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco.” City & Community, 24(1): 3-25. (Lead  article) [Data and Code] [Podcast] 

  • Honorable Mention for the Jane Addams Best Article Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. 

Tavakoli, Arash*, Isabella Douglas*, Hae Young Noh, Jackelyn Hwang, and Sarah Billington. 2025. “Psycho-behavioral Responses to Urban Scenes: An Exploration through Eye-tracking.” Cities,  156(105568).  

Dahir, Nima†*, Jackelyn Hwang†, and Ang Yu*. 2024. “Cleaning Up the Neighborhood: Using Computer Vision to Assess Differential Requests for Services.” Socius, 10:1-18. [Data and Code]  

Huang, Tianyuan*, Zeija Woo*, Jiajun Wu, Jackelyn Hwang, and Ram Rajagopol. 2024. “CityPulse: Fine Grained Assessment of Urban Change with Street View Time Series.” In the Proceedings for the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2024 Feb 22-25. Vancouver, Canada. [Data and Code] 

Freeman, Lance, Jackelyn Hwang, Tyler Haupert*, and Iris Zhang*. 2024. “Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods.” Urban Affairs Review, 60(1):  304-28. 

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. [Preprint] [Data and Code] 

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. (Lead article) [Preprint] [Data and Code] 

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.  [Preprint] [Data and Code] 

Huang, Tianyuan*, Timothy Dai*, Zhecheng Wang*, Hesu Yoon*, Hao Sheng*, Andrew Ng, Ram Rajagopal,  and Jackelyn Hwang. 2022. “Detecting Neighborhood Gentrification at Scale via Street-level Visual Data.” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. 2022 Dec 17-20. Osaka, Japan. 

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. [Preprint] [Data and Code] 

Hwang, Jackelyn and Lei Ding. 2020. “Unequal Displacement: Gentrification, Racial Stratification, and Residential Destinations in Philadelphia.” American Journal of Sociology, 126(2): 354-406. [Preprint] [Data and Code] 

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

  • Winner of the Jane Addams Best Article Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. 

Ding, Lei and Jackelyn Hwang. 2020. “Effects of Gentrification on Homeowners: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 83(103536): 1-14. [Preprint] 

  • Selected media coverage: The Atlantic CityLab, Keystone Crosswords (NPR), NewsWorks Tonight (NPR), Next City, The Philadelphia Inquirer 

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

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): 1032-77. 

  • Winner of the Louis Wirth Best Article Award, International Migration Section, American Sociological Association. 

Asad, Asad L. and Jackelyn Hwang. 2019. “Migration in the United States from Indigenous Communities in Mexico.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 684(1): 120-45.

  • Reprinted version (in Spanish) forthcoming in: 30 Years Monitoring Mexico-United States Migration:  Evaluations and Perspectives, edited by Jorge Durand, Silvia Giorguli, David Lindstrom, and Douglas Massey. 

Hwang, Jackelyn. 2019. “Residential Mobility by Whites Maintains Segregation Despite Recent Changes.”  In The Dream Revisited: Segregation and Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Steil. New York: Columbia University Press.  

Hwang, Jackelyn, Elizabeth Roberto, and Jacob S. Rugh. 2019. “Racial Segregation in the Twenty-First Century and the Role of Housing Policy.” In How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality, edited by J.  Grimm and J. Loke. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.  

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

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. [Preprint] • Selected media coverage: The Atlantic CityLab, Next City, 99% Invisible  

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

  • Top 15 Most Cited Articles of All Time in Cityscape (as of Dec 2022). 

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

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

  • Selected media coverage: The Atlantic CityLab, Bloomberg Business, The Boston Globe, CNN Money, The  Economist, Next City, Philly Voice 

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. [Preprint] [Data and Code] 

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. [Preprint] [Coding Guide] 

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. [Preprint] [Coding Guide] 

  • Selected media coverage: The Atlantic CityLab, The Boston Globe, Chicago Magazine, Gizmodo, Harvard  Gazette, NPR Code Switch, The New Yorker, Slate.com, The Wall Street Journal

Babones, Salvatore, Kandi Felmet, and Jackelyn Hwang. 2007. “A Research Note: Investigating the Lag Structure of the Education-Income Inequality Relationship.” Michigan Sociological Review, 21: 179-191.