James G. Johnson

James G. Johnson is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vermont (UVM), part of the College of Arts and Sciences. His teaching focuses on crime, criminal justice, law, and urban sociological perspectives. He previously held academic positions at Yale-NUS College in Singapore (Urban Studies Lecturer) and UCLA (Sociology Lecturer).

Education includes a PhD and MA in Sociology from UCLA, an MA in Forced Migration Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from UC Berkeley.

Research interests center on urban law and politics, social and spatial inequalities, and international migration/mobility dynamics in the US, South Africa, and France. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto and Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG), as well as visiting fellowships at Sciences Po Paris, the Scalabrini Institute for Human Migration in Africa (SIHMA), and the Academy for African Urban Diversity (AAUD).

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