 Hiromi Ishizawa
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Hiromi Ishizawa received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Minnesota Population Center (University of Minnesota) from 2006 to 2008. Her research interests are in the areas of social and family demography, immigration, sociology of language, urban sociology, race/ethnicity, and children and youth.
Selected Publications
Articles:
Forthcoming. Ishizawa, Hiromi. "Dynamics of Spanish-Language Neighborhoods in Chicago and Atlanta: 1990-2000." Population Research and Policy Review.
Forthcoming. Grbic, Douglas, Hiromi Ishizawa, and Charles Crothers. "Ethnic Residential Segregation in New Zealand, 1991-2006." Social Science Research.
2007. Ishizawa, Hiromi and Gillian Stevens. “Non-English Language Neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois: 2000.” Social Science Research36(3): 1042-1064.
2007. Stevens, Gillian and Hiromi Ishizawa. “Variation among Siblings in the Use of a Non-English Language.” Journal of Family Issues 28(8): 1008-1025.
2006. Ishizawa, Hiromi, Catherine T. Kenney, Kazuyo Kubo, and Gillian Stevens. “Constructing Interracial Families through Intercountry Adoption.” Social Science Quarterly 87(5): 1207-1224. Supplemental/Special Issue on Ethnicity.
2004. Ishizawa, Hiromi. “Minority Language Use among Grandchildren in Multigenerational Households.” Sociological Perspectives 47(4): 465-483.
Other Publications:
2006. Stevens, Gillian, Mary E. M. McKillip, and Hiromi Ishizawa. “Intermarriage in the Second Generation: Choosing Between Newcomers and Natives.” Migration Information Source.
Available at: http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=444
2006. Ishizawa, Hiromi. Child Care Arrangements of Language Minority Children and Care Provider’s Language Use. CSE Report No.674. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing.
Available at: http://www.cse.ucla.edu/products/reports/r674.pdf
Current Projects
Professor Ishizawa received a George Washington University Facilitating Fund grant for the project, "Civic Participation among Young Adults across Immigrant Generations."
Professor Ishizawa is selected as a 2009-2010 Policy Research Scholar at the George Washington Institute of Public Policy for the project, "Trajectories of Civic Engagement among Children of Immigrants."
With Dharma Arunachalam and Douglas Grbic, Professor Ishizawa is working on the project, "Ethnic Neighborhoods in Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand."
With Suh-Ruu Ou, Professor Ishizawa is working on the project, "Academic Performance of Language Minority Children: Home Language, English Proficiency, and Early Childhood Education."
Courses Taught
SOC 169: Urban Sociology (undergraduate level)
SOC 101: Social Research Methods (undergraduate level)
SOC 102: Techniques of Data Analysis (undergraduate level)
SOC 231: Data Analysis (graduate level)
Contact Information
ishizawa@gwu.edu
202-994-6897
Phillips 409E
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