Academic Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

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, 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 & Research, 52(3), 1155-1200.

Hwang, Jackelyn and Bina P. Shrimali. 2022. “Shared and Crowded Housing in the Bay Area: Where Gentrification and the Housing Crisis Meet COVID-19.” Housing Policy Debate.

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

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

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

  • Preprint: Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper Series.

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.

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

  • Preprint: Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper Series, No. W15-1.

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, ASA.

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

  • Preprint: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Working Paper Series, No. 16-20.

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

  • Preprint: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Working Paper Series, No. 16-22.

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

  • Preprint: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Working Paper Series, No. 15-36.

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

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. 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.

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.

Disciplinary Engagement

Hwang, Jackelyn. 2021. Review of Us vs. Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods, by Jan Doering (New York: Oxford University Press. 2020). American Journal of Sociology, 126(6): 1499-501.

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. 2019. Review of A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona, by Ernesto Castañeda (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2018). American Journal of Sociology, 124(6): 1890-92.

Hwang, Jackelyn. 2017. “Commentary: Observing Neighborhood Physical Disorder in an Age of Technological Innovation.” American Journal of Epidemiology, 186(3):274-77.

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

Book Chapters & Miscellaneous

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. 2019. “Chicago, Illinois.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Quane, James M., William Julius Wilson, and Jackelyn Hwang. 2015. “Black Men and the Struggle for Work.” Education Next, 15(2): 22-29. 

Quane, James M., William Julius Wilson, and Jackelyn Hwang. 2013. “The Urban Jobs Crisis: Paths toward Employment for Low-Income Blacks and Latinos.” Harvard Magazine, May/June. Preprint