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Julie Park
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Office:
3121 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301 405-6408
Email: juliepark@socy.umd.edu
Departmental Specialty Areas:
Immigration, Demography, Asian American Studies, Race/Ethnicity
Dr. Julie Park is currently an assistant professor of Sociology and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. She is also a faculty associate of the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC). Prior to joining the Maryland faculty in 2008, she was a research assistant professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the associate director of the Population Dynamics Research Group at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. (2003) and M.A. (2001) in sociology as well as a Masters in Urban Planning (1998) from the University of Southern California. She received her B.A. in sociology at the University of California, Davis.
Professor Park's research focuses most broadly on the adaptation process of immigrants in the United States which includes the areas of immigration, demography, race, and urban studies. Specifically, she examines how immigrants improve their socioeconomic status with longer duration in the U.S. Second, she utilizes an innovative cohort method to assess the intergenerational mobility across immigrant generations. Lastly, she considers how residential segregation changes in new and established immigrant gateways.
Professor Park currently teaches courses in immigration, Asian Americans Studies, and social demography. Other undergraduate courses include Asian American Public Policy and Interethnic Diversity in the West. She has also taught the following graduate courses: Urban Demography and Growth, Urban Diversity and Communication, and Statistics and Arguing from Data.
Sociology 410: Social Demography
AAST220: Introduction to Asian Americas Studies
AAST222: Immigration and Ethnicity in America
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