Abbreviated CV
EDUCATION
2018 - present
PhD in Urban and Regional Planning
Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
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2012 - 2014
Master of Urban Planning
Harvard University Graduate School of Design Cambridge, MA
2006 - 2010
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
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PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
Hwang, C. and Helps, D. “’See Detroit Like We Do’: White Savior Capitalism and the Myth of Black Obsolescence.” American Quarterly, 76(1). (In Press 2024)
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Hwang, C. (2021). “Rethinking Religion and Planning at the Lunch Counter.” Planning Theory and Practice, 22(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2021.1908078
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MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
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Hwang, C. and Etienne, H. “Drawing Your Neighborhood: Cognitive Mapping in Moments of Crisis and Change.”
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INVITED LECTURES
2022
Detroit River Research Group, University of Windsor. Winter Lecture Series.
“The Unbounded Parish: How French Colonization Continues to Shape a Region.”
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PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
2021
Hwang, C. and Helps, D. “Detroit’s Carceral Landscape: Police, Politics and Profits in America’s Blackest City – and How Detroiters are Reimagining the Future.” Michigan-Mellon Project on Egalitarianism and the Metropolis Multimedia Report. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c9840adc6f6243f59e33de21a0675d4d
2019
Settler-Colonial City Project. “Decolonizing the Chicago Cultural Center.” 2019 Chicago Biennial Exhibition.
2017
Hwang, C., Myatt, A., and Iyer, S. “GEOLOOM co<map.” Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance Interactive Mapping Tool. https://www.geoloom.org
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POLICY REPORTS
2018
Iyer, S. and Hwang, C. (2018). Cultural Mapping Baltimore: The Creation of GEOLOOM co>map (Community Scope Vol. 6 Issue 1). Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
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ACADEMIC SERVICE
June 2019 - August 2022
Co-Coordinator, Planning + Architecture Research Group
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
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June 2019-January 2020
Conference Co-Coordinator
Planning + Architecture Research Group Biennial Conference: Utopia vs. the City
Keynote: Saskia Sassen
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
June 2015 – December 2019
Urban Planner & Designer
Living Design Lab Baltimore, MD
September 2015 – July 2018
Arts & Culture Research Fellow
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance Baltimore, MD
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