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Amy L. Johnson is an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University, holding appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Health, Medicine, and Society. She is reachable at amj423@lehigh.edu and aljohnson@lehigh.edu, and her office is located in Williams Hall Room 205. Her educational background includes a PhD and MA in Sociology from Stanford University (2023 and 2019, respectively) and a BA in Sociology and Spanish from Wellesley College (2017).
Johnson’s research focuses on mental health through a cultural lens, examining how societal context influences mental health experiences and decision-making. She employs computational text analysis to study media and social media trends, including a current book project analyzing newspaper and Reddit content over decades. Her work also extends to gender beliefs, psychological distress, and mapping mental health-related 911 calls. She advocates for equitable pedagogy in quantitative methods and teaches courses such as SOC/HMS 090: How Did Opioids Become an Epidemic?, SOC/HMS 160: Medicine and Society, and SOC 221: Research Methods and Data Analysis.
Her scholarship intersects computational sociology, cultural studies, and medical sociology, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches. While her research has no explicitly mentioned awards, her projects reflect significant contributions to understanding mental health disparities and cultural narratives. She is deeply involved in curriculum development to prepare students for data-driven fields and collaborates on studies addressing gender inequality and social policy impacts on health.
