Christine Jang-Trettien is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). She is also a member of the Sociology Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center and Faculty Affiliate at the CUNY Institute of Demographic Research (CIDR). She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and received her Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University. She is a qualitative and mixed methods researcher with interests in housing, health, poverty, spatial inequality and social policy.

She previously managed a qualitative project that evaluated the impact of different place-based initiatives in Baltimore, conducting over 400 interviews with various stakeholders in the city. She was part of a study that evaluated a housing mobility program in Seattle and King County, Washington. Finally, she has conducted interviews in South Texas and Eastern Kentucky as part of the Understanding Communities of Deep Disadvantage project.

Her work has been funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Office of the President, Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, and the Princeton Alliance for Collaborative Research and Innovation. Her papers have received awards from the Urban Affairs Association and the American Sociological Association’s Community.