Current position: Professor and Head of Sociology and founder of the Center for the Study of Social Justice, The University of Tennessee.
Brief bio: Dr. Bohon's specialty areas include Demography, Immigration, Latino Sociology, Urban Sociology, and Quantitative Methodology. Her most recent work examines the growth and needs of Latino migrants in the South, focusing on the difference between Latino migrant adjustment in traditional and emerging gateways. This work interrogates the racialization of immigrants, “crimmigration” policies, and institutionalized processes of discrimination in housing and transportation. Making use of supercomputing resources at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dr. Bohon is also working with physicists to create new data visualization and computational methods using big data for understanding how and how well metropolitan areas absorb immigrants.
Website: https://sociology.utk.edu/people/stephanie-bohon/
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