Yana Kucheva

Assistant Professor

Main Affiliation

Sociology

Areas of Expertise/Research

  • Housing Policy
  • Demography

Building

North Academic Center

Office

6/108D

Phone

212-650-7493

Fax

212-650-6635

Yana Kucheva headshot

Yana Kucheva

Publications

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

2018

Kucheva, Yana. “Subsidized Housing and the Transition to Adulthood.” Demography 55 (2): 617-642.

2018

Kucheva, Yana and Richard Sander. “Structural versus Ethnic Dimensions of Housing Segregation.” Journal of Urban Affairs 40 (3): 329-348.

2014

Kucheva, Yana. 2014. “The Receipt of Subsidized Housing across Generations.” Population Research and Policy Review 33: 841-871.

2014

Kucheva, Yana and Richard Sander. 2014. "The Misunderstood Consequences of Shelley v. Kraemer.” Social Science Research 48: 212-233.

2013

Kucheva, Yana. 2013. “Subsidized Housing and the Concentration of Poverty, 1977-2008: An Examination of Eight U.S. Metropolitan Areas.” City and Community 12(2): 113-133.

 

BOOK

2018

Sander, Richard, Yana Kucheva, and Jonathan Zasloff. Moving toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing. Harvard University Press.

 

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

2018

Hernandez, Ramona, Yana Kucheva, Sarah Marrara, and Utku Sezgin. Restoring Housing Security and Stability in New York City Neighborhoods: Recommendations to Stop the Displacement of Dominicans and Other Working-Class Groups in Washington Heights and Inwood. CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.

2015

Grusky, David, Marion Coddou, Erin Cumberworth, Jonathan Fisher, Jared Furuta, Jasmine Hill, Sara Kimberlin, Molly King, Yana Kucheva, Ryan Leupp, Marybeth Mattingly, Natassia Rodriguez, Charles Varner, and Rachel Wright. 2015. Why Is There So Much Poverty in California? The Causes of California’s Sky-High Poverty and the Evidence Behind the Equal Opportunity Plan for Reducing It. Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.

2014

Kucheva, Yana, Adele Hayutin, Jane Hickie, and Claudia Engel. 2014. The Spatial Distribution of an Aging Population. Stanford Center on Longevity.

 

Teaching

Methods and Techniques of Sociological Research

Poverty and Inequality

Housing and Community Development

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2016-2017

CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP)

2016-2017

CUNY Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IRG) Program, “Introducing New Measures of Segregation: Space-Time-Activity Prisms and Time-Dependent Neighborhoods,” PI: Mahdieh Allahviranloo, Co-PI: Yana Kucheva

2016-2017

PSC-CUNY Research Award (Traditional B), “Neighborhood Migration and the Reproduction of Residential Segregation”

2011

Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Research Grant

2010-2011

UCLA Sociology Department Fellowship

2010

California Center for Population Studies Travel Grant

2009

California Center for Population Studies Travel Grant

2008-2009

UCLA Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship

2008

California Center for Population Studies Travel Grant

2007-2008

UCLA Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship

2006-2007

UCLA Sociology Department Fellowship

2004

William Gaston Premium Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Brown University

2003

Harriet David Goldberg Award for Urban Studies Research in the Providence, RI Area

 

 

AWARDS

2011

Horowitz Foundation Eli Ginzberg Award “for a project involving solutions to major health and welfare problems in urban settings”

2011

Phi Beta Kappa Society of Southern California International Graduate Student Award

2004

Best Senior Honors Thesis – Urban Studies Department, Brown University

2003

Swearer Center for Public Service Community Service Award, Brown University