Odis Johnson Jr., PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy & STEM Equity; Director, Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies; Executive Director, Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools; Senior Fellow, 21st Century Cities Initiative
- Email: ojohns06@nospam.jhu.edu
Odis Johnson Jr., PhD, is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he has faculty appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Education as Executive Director of the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, and in the Department of Sociology at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He also directs the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM). Odis Johnson previously served as a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, served as an Associate Director for the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, and chaired the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland. Dr. Johnson completed his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan, and a Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Johnson’s civic and intellectual engagements extend from a realization that his own childhood experiences in struggling inner-city neighborhoods and their institutions are shared by far too many people of color. The scholarship that has emerged from this awareness has featured the interrelated topics of residential stratification, the relative status of African Americans, and social policy (educational, housing, or policing policies), not only to expand knowledge, but in hopes of increasing the possibilities of evidenced-based social reform.
Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies