Odis Johnson, Jr. Email & Phone Number

Odis Johnson Jr., PhD, is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and STEM Equity at Johns Hopkins University and the Edmund W. Gordon Chair of Policy Research and Evaluation at Educational Testing Services (ETS). At Hopkins, Dr. Johnson is Director of the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM), and Executive Director of the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools. Prior to his appointments at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Johnson was a professor of sociology and education at Washington University in St. Louis. 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 features the critical triangulation of residential stratification, racial inequality, and social policy (educational, housing, or policing policies). His work on these topics has earned him a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (the first awarded to an education scholar in the history of the interdisciplinary competition), the 2013 Outstanding Review of Research Award from the American Educational Research Association, and the 2015 Outstanding Author Contribution Award from Emerald Publishing. Dr. Johnson’s research has appeared in highly-selective scientific journals, including the Review of Educational Research, Social Science and Medicine, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Research. He currently is the principal investigator of the Fatal Interactions with Police Study (FIPS) which has generated a national data file of police homicides, and three NSF-funded studies that examine how policies to maintain law and order in neighborhoods and schools impact the representation of race-gender groups within the School-to-Prison and STEM pipelines. Dr. Johnson’s ideas about social change have been featured in prominent media outlets, including the Oprah Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, The Washington Post, MSNBC, NPR, Teen Vogue, The Associated Press, Vox, The New Yorker, SiriusXM, and a variety of international and local news outlets.

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