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
Website

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 |