Karen Johnson-Webb
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000
Health and Medical Geography, Population Geography and the intersectionality of structural racism
Research Interests:
Dr. Johnson-Webb is a human geographer specializing in health and medical geography. Her research focuses on black infant mortality in Ohio, as well as how stress and structural racism are related to black infant mortality. Dr. Johnson-Webb is the author of a book entitled Recruiting Hispanic Labor: Immigrants in Non-Traditional Areas, published in 2003, and of several scholarly articles and book chapters. Dr. Johnson-Webb has utilized qualitative methods extensively in her research program. Recent achievements include the Black Excellence for Faculty Award, election to the Executive Committee of the American Association of Geographers, and an invitation to ELSI workshop at National Institutes of Health.