Young-An Kim
MA Program
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Timothy W. Collins
Thesis: Hispanic health paradox at the neighborhood level
Post MA in Sociology
PhD Program: Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of California - Irvine, Criminology, Law & Society; 5 year guaranteed funding as Graduate Student Researcher at the Irvine Lab for the Study of Space and Crime (ILSSC) and Metropolitan Future Initiative (MFI).
Publications:
- Kim, Young-An, (2016). Examining the relationship between the structural characteristics of place and crime by imputing Census block data in street segments: Is the pain worth the gain? Journal of Quantitative Criminology, DOI 10.1007/s10940-016-9323-8.
- Hipp, John R. and Young-An Kim, (2016). Measuring Crime Concentration across Cities of Varying Sizes:
- Complications Based on the Spatial and Temporal Scale Employed, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Conditionally Accepted.
- Kubrin, Charis E., John R. Hipp, and Young-An Kim, (2016). The spatial clustering of immigrant groups and the consequences for neighborhood crime rates, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, DOI 10.1007/s10940-016-9320-y.
- Grineski, Sara, E., Timothy W. Collins, and Young-An Kim, (2015). Contributions of individual acculturation and neighborhood ethnic density to variations in Hispanic children's respiratory health in a U.S.-Mexican border metropolis. Journal of Public Heath, 37(2), 1-9. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdv086.
- Kim, Young-An, Timothy W. Collins, and Sara E. Grineski, (2014). Neighborhood context and the Hispanic health paradox: Differential effects of immigrant density on children wheezing by poverty, nativity and medical history. Health and Place, 27, 1-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.01.006.
- McDonald, Yolanda J., Sara E. Grineski, Timothy W. Collins, and Young-An Kim, (2014). A scalable climate health justice assessment model. Social Science & Medicine, 133, 242-252, doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.032
- Collins, Timothy, W., Young-An Kim, Sara E. Grineski, and S. Clark-Reyna, (2014). Can economic deprivation protect health? Paradoxical contextual, compositional and cross-level effects of poverty on Hispanic children’s wheezing. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(8), 7856-7873; doi:10.3390/ijerph110807856.
- Grineski, Sara, E., Timothy W. Collins, Paola Chavez-Payan, Anthony Jimenez, Stephanie Clark-Reyna, Marie Gaines, and Young-An Kim, (2014). Social disparities in children’s respiratory health in El Paso, Texas. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11, 2941-2957. DOI:10.3390/ijerph110302941.
Jobs: PhD student; funded Graduate Student Researcher
How has the MA in Sociology program prepared you? I learned various research skills and how to collaborate in academia when working with Tim and Sara.
Organization memberships:
- American Society of Criminology
- Association of American Geographers
- Korean Society of Criminology in America
Future Goals: Achieving PhD, getting a job in academia
Education
BA- Sociology, Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Seoul, 2010
MA- Sociology, The Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Texas at El Paso, 2013
Email: youngank@uci.edu
Favorite Memory
Working vigorously with Tim and Sara.