Joong Won Kim (he/him/his) Ph.D. is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Criminology and Legal Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences (SOCS) at Marquette University. Dr. J.W. Kim earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at Virginia Tech and his M.A. in Sociology at DePaul University. His first education and realization of the possibilities of Sociology as a scholar-activist practice began during his training as a B.A. in Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
His research is at the intersection of Race and Ethnicity, Assimilation, Public Policy, Human-Technology Interaction, and Racialized Spaces. By drawing on how cultural practices become racialized, Dr. Kim's research centralizes the role of race in shaping spatial inequality at a global, transnational scale. Dr. Kim’s work can be found in academic peer-reviewed journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, Sociation, Sociological Inquiry, Social Currents, and Sustainability. As an award winning lecturer, Dr. Kim centers his pedagogy on his research as a feedback loop to his pedagogy in the classroom. Dr. Kim also serves as an Affiliate Faculty for the Honors Program at Marquette University's Klinger School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Kim is also the Communication Director for the Laboratory for the Study of Youth Inequality and Justice housed at Arizona State University. | ||||