Joong Won Kim (he/him/his) Ph.D. is a Sociologist of Race and Ethnicity. Dr. Kim is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Director of Online Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 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, Gender, 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. Dr. Kim centers his pedagogy on his research as a feedback loop to his pedagogy in the classroom. This also extends to his endeavor as the Director of Online Studies in creating and spearheading the exclusively online Sociology B.A. program. Dr. Kim also serves as a Research Assistant Professor and as the Communication Director for the Laboratory for the Study of Youth Inequality and Justice housed in Arizona State University.
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