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WashU Sociology's Spring 2026 Colloquium Series: Jackelyn Hwang

The WashU Sociology Colloquium Series invites visiting scholars to share their work, while contributing to the general intellectual culture of the WashU Sociology Department.

Join the WashU Department of Sociology for our second installment of our Spring Colloquium Series, featuring Prof. Jackelyn "Jackie" Hwang

Presentation title forthcoming. 

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. 

More about our guest: https://sociology.stanford.edu/people/jackelyn-hwang 

Colloquia are open to a broader WashU audience; however, space is limited. 
Students who are interested in more advanced sociological inquiry are strongly encouraged to attend.