Yana Kucheva
(she/her)
Associate Professor
Interim Chair, Sociology (2023-2024)
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Demography
- Environmental Justice
- Housing Policy
Building
North Academic Center
Office
6/108D
Phone
212-650-7493
Fax
212-650-6635
Website
Yana Kucheva
Publications
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Kucheva, Yana. 2022. Demography 59(2): 433-459.
Baghestani, Amirhossein, Tayarani, Mohammad, Allaviranloo, Mahdieh, Nadafianshahamabadi, Razieh, Kucheva, Yana, Mamdoohi, Amirreza, and Oliver Gao. 2022. “” Case Studies on Transport Policy 10(1): 485-499.
Kucheva, Yana. 2021. “.” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 23(2): 207-244.
Kucheva, Yana. 2018. “” Demography 55(2): 617-642.
Kucheva, Yana and Richard Sander. 2018.“.” Journal of Urban Affairs 40(3): 329-348.
· Honorable Mention, Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award, 2019
Kucheva, Yana. 2014. “” Population Research and Policy Review 33: 841-871.
Kucheva, Yana and Richard Sander. 2014. "” Social Science Research 48: 212-233.
Kucheva, Yana. 2013. “.” City and Community 12(2): 113-133.
BOOK
Sander, Richard, Yana Kucheva, and Jonathan Zasloff. 2018. Harvard University Press.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
Sander, Richard and Yana Kucheva. 2020. “” Case Western Reserve Law Review 70(3).
Sander, Richard and Yana Kucheva. 2020. “” Case Western Reserve Law Review 70(3).
Hernandez, Ramona, Yana Kucheva, Sarah Marrara, and Utku Sezgin. 2018. 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. Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.
Kucheva, Yana, Adele Hayutin, Jane Hickie, and Claudia Engel. 2014. Stanford Center on Longevity.
Teaching
Methods and Techniques of Sociological Research
Poverty and Inequality
Housing and Community Development
Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
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)
AWARDS
2023
The Powell School Outstanding Student Mentoring Award, 91ĸƵ
2011
Horowitz Foundation Eli Ginzberg Award “for a project involving solutions to major health and welfare problems in urban settings”