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Department/College/UnitSocial Sciences Division

TitleAssistant Professor

AffiliationFaculty

Web SitePersonal
Lab

Primary Office LocationSocial Sciences 2
375

Additional Location(s)Lab: Social Sciences 2, Room 229

Office Hours(Winter 2025) Wed., 11am -12pm Soc Sci 2 rm 375

Mail StopPsychology Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis

M.S.W., Columbia University

B.A., University of Chicago

Research Interests

How racial and linguistic diversity in neighborhood, community, and cultural contexts shape social group conception in racial majority and minority children; how a person’s accent is an important social marker in addition to race; and how children learn about societal inequalities and how to foster political activism.

Selected Publications

• Hwang, H.G., Debnath, R., Meyer, M., Salo, V. C., Fox, N.A. & Woodward, A. (2021). Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants’ neural responses to people of different races. Developmental Science, 24(4), e13070.
• Hwang, H. G. & Markson, L (2018). Locals don’t have accents: Children weigh phonological proficiency over syntactic or semantic proficiency when categorizing individuals. Journal of Child Language, 45(4), 1018 – 1034.
• DeJesus, J., Hwang, H. G., Dautel, J. B., & Kinzler, K. D. (2017). ‘American = English-speaker’ before ‘American = White.’ The development of children’s reasoning about nationality. Child Development, 89(5), 1752 – 1767.