C. Aujean Lee
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
PhD, Urban Planning
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Master’s of Urban Planning
University of California, Los Angeles
BA, Psychology, Asian American Studies
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Research Interests
Housing, social equity, nonprofits, segregation
Appointments
Core Affiliate Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies
About
C. Aujean Lee is an assistant professor of Regional and City Planning. She earned her PhD from UCLA in the Department of Urban Planning, where she was also a research associate for the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge. Her research focuses on residential segregation and racial disparities in homeownership, wealth, and community institutions. She also examines nonprofits in providing social protections to vulnerable communities in uncertain policy circumstances.
Professional Affiliations
American Planning Association
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
Association for Asian American Studies
International Sociological Association Research Committee 43 – Housing and the Built Environment
Urban Affairs Association
Awards
Don T. Nakanishi Award for Outstanding Engaged Scholarship
Selected Publications
Lee, C. Aujean, Nina M. Flores, & Laureen D. Hom. (2021). “Learning from Asian Americans: Implications for Planning.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. doi: 10.1177/0739456X211006768.
Garcia, Ivis, April Jackson, Stacy A. Harwood, Andrew J. Greenlee, C. Aujean Lee, & Benjamin Chrisinger. (2021). “’Like a Fish out of Water’: The Experience of African American and Latinx Planning Students.” Journal of the American Planning Association, 87(1), 108-122.
Lee, C. Aujean, Benjamin Chrisinger, Andrew J. Greenlee, Ivis Garcia, & April Jackson. (2020). “Beyond Recruitment: Comparing Experiences of Climate and Diversity between International Students and Domestic Students of Color in U.S. Urban Planning Programs.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. doi: 10.1177/0739456X20902241
C. Aujean Lee & Andrew J. Greenlee. (2020). “Impacts of Multi-Scale Racial Concentration on Neighborhood Foreclosure Risk in Immigrant Gateway Metropolitan Areas” City & Community. doi: 10.1111/cico.12478
Lee, C. Aujean. (2019). “’Working towards a Better Future for Ourselves’: Neighborhood Choice of Middle-Class Latino and Asian Homeowners in Los Angeles.” Journal of Urban Affairs. doi: 10.1080/01944363.2019.1616318
Lee, C. Aujean. (2019). “Engaging Non-Citizens in an Age of Uncertainty: Lessons from Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits in Los Angeles County.” Journal of the American Planning Association, 85(3), 271-286. doi: 10.1080/01944363.2019.1616318.
Lee, C. Aujean & R. Varisa Patraporn. (2018-2019). “Let’s Get Along: Strengthening Academic-Nonprofit Partnerships in Research.” AAPI Nexus Journal: Policy, Practice, & Community, 16(1-2), 85-110.
Lee, C. Aujean. (2019). “Investing in Non-White Spaces.” Public Health Post. View article: https://www.publichealthpost.org/research/rethinking-us-housing-policies-of-dispersion-investing-in-non-white-spaces/
Garcia, Ivis, April Jackson, Stacy A. Harwood, Andrew J. Greenlee, C. Aujean Lee, & Benjamin Chrisinger. (2021). “’Like a Fish out of Water’: The Experience of African American and Latinx Planning Students.” Journal of the American Planning Association, 87(1), 108-122. doi: 10.1177/0739456X211006768.
Greenlee, Andrew, April Jackson, Ivis Garcia, C. Aujean Lee, & Benjamin Chrisinger. (2018). “Where are we going? Where have we been?: The Climate for Diversity within Urban Planning Educational Programs.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. doi: 10.1177/0739456X18815740.
Lee, C. Aujean & Paul Ong. (2018). “Extending the Kim Methodology: Using the Prominent Ethnic Surname Methodology to Examine Asian American Ethnic Groups.” Asian American Policy Review, 28, 17-32.
Lee, C. Aujean. (2018). “Heterogeneity in Income: Effects of Racial Concentration on Foreclosures in Los Angeles.” Housing Policy Debate, 28(6), 940-962. doi: 10.1080/10511482.2018.1494026
Lee, C. Aujean. (2017). “’Between the Haves and Have-Nots’: Using an Interdisciplinary Approach to Inform Federal Data Collection Efforts of Indigenous Populations.” The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8(4). doi: 10.18584/iipj.2017.8.4.5
Lee, C. Aujean, Karna Wong, and Deirdre Pfeiffer. (2017). “On the Front Lines of Immigrant Homeownership: Asian American Nonprofits during the Great Recession.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 46(6), 1209-1230. doi: 10.1177/0899764017713726
Lee, C. Aujean. (2015). “Loss in Translation: Housing Agency Segmentation in the Twin Cities.” AAPI Nexus Journal: Policy, Practice, & Community, 13(1-2), 206-229. doi: 10.17953/1545-0317.13.1.206
Featured Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research
Faculty Investment Program, University of Oklahoma (2020-2021), “Outsourcing Community Development and Advocacy?: A Case Study of Neighborhood Alliance of Central Oklahoma,” Co-Investigator with John C. Harris.
University of Oklahoma Office of University Community, Inclusive Excellence Faculty Grant (2019), “(Re)Mapping Norman Oral History and Indigenous Mapping,” Co-Investigator with Gabriela Rios.
Program for Research Enhancement, University of Oklahoma College of Architecture (2018-2019), “Latino and Asian American Homeowner Choice in Atlanta.”
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2013-2018).
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. Social Justice Award, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs (2018), “Global Students, Local Pedagogy, and Diversity: Experiences of International Students in American Urban Planning Programs”.
The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs (2018), “Social Protections in the New Administration: Nonprofit Responses Amidst Political Changes Working Group”.
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. Social Justice Award, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs (2017), “Neighborhood segregation and Latino and Asian Housing Choice in Los Angeles,” http://luskin.ucla.edu/2017/02/09/2017-gilliam-winners-tackleissues-inequality/.