POSITIONS
2022 -
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
The City College of New York
2024 -
Coordinator, Harlem 2032, CCNY
2024 -
Faculty Affiliate, NYC Climate Justice Hub, CUNY
2023 -
Steering Committee, Social Mobility Lab, CCNY
2023-2024
Interim Chair, Department of Sociology
The City College of New York
2015 - 2022
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
The City College of New York
2015 -
Faculty Affiliate, The CUNY Institute of Demographic Research (CIDR)
2012 - 2015
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University
EDUCATION
2012
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
2008
M.A. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
2004
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Urban Studies (with Honors) and Economics, Brown University
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Sander, Richard and Yana Kucheva. 2025. “The Diverging Paths of Black-White Residential Segregation in Urban America, 1970-1990.” American Journal of Sociology 130(4): 803-845.
Chen, Gong, Ninad Kashyap, Zihao Zhang, Yana Kucheva, Michael Bobker, Zhigang Zhu. 2025. "Creating and Analyzing a Multimedia Dataset for Building Energy Efficiency Estimation." In: Berretti, S., Azari, H. (eds). Smart Multimedia. ICSM 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14957. Springer: 62-77.
Baghestani, Amirhossein, Mohyeddin Nikbakht, Yana Kucheva, and Ali Afshar. 2024. “Assessing Spatial and Racial Equity of Subway Accessibility: Case Study of New York City.” Cities 150: 105489.
Kucheva, Yana and Ronak Etemadpour. 2024. "Gas leaks, gas shutoffs, and environmental justice in New York City." Urban Affairs Review. (online first)
Kucheva, Yana. 2022. “What would it take to desegregate U.S. metropolitan areas? Pathways to residential desegregation by race.” Demography 59(2): 433-459.
Baghestani, Amirhossein, Tayarani, Mohammad, Allaviranloo, Mahdieh, Nadafianshahamabadi, Razieh, Kucheva, Yana, Mamdoohi, Amirreza, and Oliver Gao. 2022. “New York City Cordon Pricing and Its Impacts on Transit Accessibility, Air Quality, and Health.” Case Studies on Transport Policy 10(1): 485-499.
Kucheva, Yana. 2021. “Residential Mobility and Hispanic Segregation: Spatial Assimilation and the Concentration of Poverty, 1960-2014.” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 23(2): 207-244.
Kucheva, Yana. 2018. “Subsidized Housing and the Transition to Adulthood.” Demography 55(2): 617-642.
Kucheva, Yana and Richard Sander. 2018.“Structural versus Ethnic Dimensions of Housing Segregation.” Journal of Urban Affairs 40(3): 329-348.
· Honorable Mention, Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award, 2019
Kucheva, Yana. 2014. “The Receipt of Subsidized Housing across Generations.” Population Research and Policy Review 33: 841-871.
Kucheva, Yana and Richard Sander. 2014. "The Misunderstood Consequences of Shelley v. Kraemer.” Social Science Research 48: 212-233.
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
Sander, Richard, Yana Kucheva, and Jonathan Zasloff. 2018. Moving toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing. Harvard University Press.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
Sander, Richard and Yana Kucheva. 2020. “Why We Wrote Moving Toward Integration.” Case Western Reserve Law Review 70(3).
Sander, Richard and Yana Kucheva. 2020. “A Brief Comment on the Symposium Essays.” Case Western Reserve Law Review 70(3).
Hernandez, Ramona, Yana Kucheva, Sarah Marrara, and Utku Sezgin. 2018. 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.
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.
Kucheva, Yana, Adele Hayutin, Jane Hickie, and Claudia Engel. 2014. The Spatial Distribution of an Aging Population. Stanford Center on Longevity.
COURSES
Methods and Techniques of Sociological Research
Poverty and Inequality
Housing and Community Development
Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2025-2028
Mellon Foundation, “SUSTAIN-NYC: Storytelling for Urban Sustainability and Transformation in New York City.” PI: Prash Naidu, Co-PIs: Yana Kucheva, Deborah Cheng ($490,267)
2024-2027
Department of Energy, “The Climate Lighthouse: DOE-CCNY Urban Climate Hazard Resilience Center.” PI: James Booth, Co-PIs: Naresh Devineni, Bryce Harrop, Spencer Hill, Yana Kucheva, Katia Lamer, Rachael Piltch-Loeb, Prathap Ramamurthy, Zihao Zhang ($998,973)
2022-2025
CCNY College Research Vision (CRV) Initiative, “Energizing Equity: Co-Creating Scalable Urban Resilience via Climate Solidarity,” PIs: Yana Kucheva, Co-PIs: Ahmed Mohammed, Michael Bobker, Katherine Chen, Prathap Ramamurthy, Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Shawn Rickenbacker, Huy Vo, Zihao Zhang, Zhigang Zhu ($600,000)
2022-2025
FORMAS (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development), “Transforming the housing landscape: how dwelling construction and tenure conversion affect processes of residential segregation,” PI: Benjamin Jarvis, Co-PIs: Guilherme Chihaya, Yana Kucheva ($400,000)
2021-2024
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Housing vulnerability and COVID-19,” PI: Kate Choi, Co-PIs: Yana Kucheva, Michael Haan ($74,995)
2021-2022
Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grants Competition, “Stitching the U.S. Safety Net: Inequality and Social Mobility in Mixed Status Latino Immigrant Families,” PI: Yana Kucheva, Co-PI: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga ($29,544)
2020-2021
Social Science Research Council, “Revisiting the Hispanic Health Paradox: The Housing and Work Experiences of Immigrants in NYC During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” PI: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga, Co-PI: Yana Kucheva ($4,500)
2020-2021
National Science Foundation, “SCC-PG: Developing Technological Solutions to Improve Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort in Urban Communities,” PI: Prathap Ramamurthy, Co-PIs: Yana Kucheva, Mahdieh Allahviranloo, Ronak Etemadpour ($141,825)
2020
CUNY Interdisciplinary Climate Crisis Research Grant, “Heat and The City: Understanding the Impact of Urban Thermodynamics on Social Vulnerability,” PI: Prathap Ramamurthy, Co-PIs: Yana Kucheva, Andrew Reinmann, Peter Marcotullio ($45,000)
2019-2020
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Traditional B), “Assisted Housing and Household Structure” ($4,530)
2019
William Stewart Travel Award, The CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences ($300)
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 ($40,000)
2016-2017
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Traditional B), “Neighborhood Migration and the Reproduction of Residential Segregation” ($4,530)
2011
Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Research Grant ($4,000)
AWARDS
2023
The Powell School Outstanding Student Mentoring Award, The City College of New York
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
PRESENTATIONS
2023
Kucheva, Yana and Norma Fuentes-Mayorga. “Stitching the U.S. Safety Net: Mixed Status Latino Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” presented at the Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Capstone Conference in Chicago, IL, March 16-17, 2023 and at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association in Philadelphia, PA, August 17-21, 2023
2022
Kucheva, Yana. “The U.S. Social Safety Net and Housing Insecurity amongst Latinx Families with Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” presented at the 25th International Metropolis Conference in Berlin, Germany, September 5-9, 2022.
2022
Fuentes-Mayorga, Norma and Yana Kucheva. “Revisiting the Hispanic Health Paradox: The Housing and Work Experiences of Latino Immigrants in New York City during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Los Angeles, CA, August 5-9, 2022.
2020
Choi, Kate, Yana Kucheva, Sagi Ramaj, and Michael Haan. “Residential Mobility and Income Trajectories of Immigrants: A Study Using Administrative Data from Immigrant Admission Files and Income Tax Returns,” accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Washington, DC, April 23 – April 25, 2020. (Conference cancelled)
2019
“Racial Residential Segregation in an Era of Increasing Income Inequality and Poverty Concentration,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Austin, TX, April 10 – April 13, 2019 and the Annual Conference of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) in Madison, WI September 6, 2019.
2018
“Neighborhood Migration and the Reproduction of Racial Residential Segregation,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Denver, CO, April 24-29, 2018 and the Annual Conference of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) in State College, PA, September 7, 2018.
2017
Author Meets Critics Book Session, “Inside the Labyrinth: Segregation and the Path to Fair Housing,” (with Richard Sander and Jonathan Zasloff) at the Annual Conference of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) in Los Angeles, CA, September 14, 2017.
2017
“Space-Time-Activity Prisms and Time-Dependent Neighborhoods” (with Mahdieh Allahviranloo), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, in Chicago, IL, April 27-29, 2017.
2016
“Black Pioneers, Inter-Metropolitan Movers, and Housing Desegregation” (with Richard Sander) presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Washington, DC, March 31-April 2, 2016 and at the Annual Conference of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) in College Station, TX, September 15, 2016.
2016
“Urban Pioneers and the Dream of an Integrated Society” (with Richard Sander and Jonathan Zasloff) presented at the California Institute of Technology book manuscript series, February 5, 2016.
2015
“Structural Segregation in the United States, 1960-2010” (with Richard Sander) presented at the Annual Conference of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) in Stanford, CA, September 18, 2015 and at the Baruch School of Public Affairs Colloquium, October 24, 2015.
2014
“The Receipt of Subsidized Housing across Generations” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Boston, MA, May 1-3, 2014.
2013
“Subsidized Housing and Household Structure: An Increment-Decrement Life Table Approach” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York, NY, August 10-13, 2013.
2012
“Subsidized Housing and the Transition to Adulthood” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Denver, CO, August 17-20, 2012.
2011
“Subsidized Housing and Household Structure: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Washington, DC, March 31 – April 2, 2011.
2010
“Subsidized Housing’s Siting and Its Social Consequences: A Comparison between Eight U.S. Cities” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Atlanta, GA, August 14-17, 2010.
2010
"The Misunderstood Consequences of Shelley v. Kraemer” (with Richard Sander) presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Dallas, TX, April 15-17, 2010, and at the Conference of Empirical Legal Studies in New Haven, CT, November 5-6, 2010.
2009
“The Determinants of Exit from Public Housing” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, CA, August 8-11, 2009.
2009
“Subsidized Housing and the Concentration of Poverty” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Detroit, MI, April 30-May 2, 2009.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2023
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Multidisciplinary Seminar (The Graduate Center at CUNY)
2021
CIDR NYRDC Colloquium: Research Opportunities at the New York Federal Statistical Research Data Center (NYRDC-Baruch)
2020
World Food Day panelist, The City College of New York
2019
Book symposium on Moving toward Integration, Case Western Reserve School of Law
2018
University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law, Fair Housing Act Symposium
2017
University of Lincoln – Nebraska, UNL Research Fair, 2017, Central Plains Research Data Center (RDC) Research Session.
2016
Brown University, Workshop on Urban Inequality: Longitudinal, Multilevel, and Spatial Approaches.
2016
CUNY - Queens College, Sociology Department.
2016
CUNY - Lehman College, Sociology Department
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
University service
2022
CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Fellowship Selection Committee
2022
Sociology Department Hiring Committee
2021-
Sociology Department Executive Committee
2016-
Middle States Accreditation, Sociology Department Committee
2016-2021
CLAS Faculty Council
Conference panel organizer and discussant
2024
Discussant, Session on Housing: Institutions and Policy and Session on Transitions to Adulthood , Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 18-20, 2024, Columbus, OH.
2023
Discussant, Session on Inequalities and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 12-15, New Orleans, LA
2022
Discussant, Session on Gendered Impact of COVID-19 in the Household and Session on Ethno-racial and Nativity Disparities in the Labor Market, Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 6-9, Atlanta, GA.
2021
Organizer, Session on Neighborhoods, Children, and Youth, Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 5-8, 2021 (online).
2021
Chair, Inequalities and COVID-19, Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 5-8, 2021 (online).
2020
Discussant, Session on Housing, Neighborhoods, and Child Well-Being, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Fall Research Conference, November 11-13, 2020 (online)
2018
Discussant, Session on Gentrification, Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 24-29, Denver, CO.
2016
Discussant, Session on Intersectionality in Population Research, Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 31-April 2, Washington, DC.
2015
Population Association of America, 2016 Program Committee
2015
Discussant, Session on Residential Mobility and Dynamics of Segregation, Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 30 – May 2, 2015, San Diego, CA.
2015
Organizer, Session on Housing Demography and Household Structure, Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 30 – May 2, 2015, San Diego, CA.
2014
Organizer, Open Roundtable Session, Community and Urban Sociology Section, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 16-19, 2014, San Francisco, CA.
Occasional reviewer and panelist
American Sociological Review; City and Community; Demography; Environment, Development, and Sustainability; NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences Program; NSF Panelist; Federal Statistical Research Data Center Program; Housing Studies; Housing, Theory, and Society; International Journal of Housing Policy; International Review of Sociology; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; Political Science Quarterly; Population and Environment; PSC-CUNY Award Program; Social Problems; Social Sciences; Socius; Spatial Demography; Sustainability; Urban Affairs Review; Urban Science
ADVISING
2020
(completed)
Ph.D. Committee Member
· Amirhosein Baghestani, “Evaluating the Traffic and Emissions Impacts of New York City Cordon Pricing using Activity-Based Approach”
2016
(completed)
Faculty adviser, undergraduate theses
· Nadia Quddus, “Impact of Minimum Wage Increases on Poverty and Unemployment”
· Dashell Lumas, “Immigration, Crime, and Social Policy in Europe”
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association
Population Association of America
LANGUAGES
Bulgarian (native), German (proficient), Spanish (intermediate)