Jackie Hwang

Graduate Student in Sociology and Social Policy

Biographical Note

Jackie Hwang is originally from Worcester, MA and grew up in Cherry Hill, NJ. She received her B.A.S. with honors in Sociology and Mathematics from Stanford University in June 2007. Her senior thesis, which earned the Stanford Firestone Medal, focused on racial divisions in perceptions of neighborhood borders during gentrification. As an undergraduate, she worked as a research assistant in the Stanford Sociology and Psychology Departments and at the University of Pittsburgh Sociology Department. After graduating from Stanford, she lived in Philadelphia, PA working in education management for a community-focused charter school in West Philadelphia. Her academic interests include community and urban sociology, inequality, race and ethnicity, culture, and education.

08/31/2009

Research Interests

Community and Urban Sociology, Social Policy, Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, and Education.

Contact

617-496-3852 (Phone)
617-496-5794 (FAX)

641 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138