Teaching Assistant Professor
Social and Cultural Sciences
Joong Won Kim (he/him/his) Ph.D. is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Criminology and Legal Studies at the Department of Cultural and Social Sciences at 探花视频. Dr. 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 Interactions, 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鈥檚 work can be found in academic peer-reviewed journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, Sociological Inquiry, Social Currents, and Sustainability. Dr. Kim is an award-winning lecturer who actively utilizes technology at the intersection of culture to deliver student-centered learning experiences.