Abbreviated CV
EDUCATION
2018 - present
PhD in Urban and Regional Planning
Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
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
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)
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
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Hwang, C. and Etienne, H. “Drawing Your Neighborhood: Cognitive Mapping in Moments of Crisis and Change.”
INVITED LECTURES
2022
Detroit River Research Group, University of Windsor. Winter Lecture Series.
“The Unbounded Parish: How French Colonization Continues to Shape a Region.”
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
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.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
June 2019 - August 2022
Co-Coordinator, Planning + Architecture Research Group
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
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
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