News & Highlights

June 2025

Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Prof. Nima Dahir received Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Community and Urban Sociology Section's Jane Addams Award for Best Article for their article published in City & Community:

Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco
by Nima Dahir and Jackelyn Hwang

Congratulations to the PhD students at the Changing Cities Research Lab for all their papers published in the past academic year!

Olivia Jin (PhD Candidate, Stanford) co-authored a forthcoming paper in Annual Review of Sociology:

Online Nonprobability Samples
by Jeremy Freese and Olivia Jin

Qiwei Lin (PhD Student, Stanford) co-authored a paper in Scientific Data:

Enabling Disaggregation of Asian American Subgroups: A Datset of Wikidata Names for Disparity Estimation
by Qiwei Lin, Derek Ouyang, Cameron Guage, Isabel O. Gallegos, Jacob Goldin, and Daniel E. Ho

Tyler McDaniel (PhD Candidate, Stanford) won the Stanford Sociology Department’s New Direction Research Award for his recent paper published in Socius, examining how activity spaces relate to school enrollments and school segregation.

Segregated Activities, Segregated Schools? Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and Enrollments in Los Angeles
by Tyler McDaniel

Tyler McDanielalso co-authored a paper in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility:

Doing Gender and the Surname Choices of Married Women
by Florencia Torche, Alisa Feldman, Tyler McDaniel

February 2025

Prof. Jackelyn Hwang, Mira Joseph, Iris Zhang (PhD Candidate, Stanford), and researchers from the Housing Initiative at Penn co-authored a policy report presenting findings from a 1.5 year long evaluation of Keep People Housed, a homelessness prevention pilot program in Oakland.

Keep People Housed: Oakland’s Targeted Homelessness Prevention Pilot
by Mira Joseph, Cypress Marrs, Chi-Hyun Kim, Iris Zhang, Vincent Reina, and Jackelyn Hwang

January 2025

Prof. Jackelyn Hwang co-authored a paper in Cities examining how construction sites, recreational vehicles, and mismanaged trash in neighborhoods impact human well-beingand perceptions of neighborhoods, using self-reported stress metrics and eye-tracking.

Psycho-behavioral Responses to Urban Scenes: An Exploration through Eye-tracking
by Arash Tavakoli, Isabella Douglas, Hae Young Noh, Jackelyn Hwang, and Sarah Billington