Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Email: kjohnson@albany.edu
Phone: (518) 442-4671
Office: Arts & Sciences 344

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Kecia R. Johnson is currently an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department.  Her research interests focus on crime and deviance, race/ethnicity, gender, and labor markets.  Broadly speaking, her research seeks to understand the processes that perpetuate racial and gender inequality within a variety of social contexts.  She investigates these processes by examining the consequences of imprisonment for individuals, the impact of race and ethnicity on earnings within labor markets, and the effects of racial composition on criminal sentencing policies. 

Dr. Johnson is currently working on projects that build on and extend her research interests concerning the consequences of imprisonment.  One project examines whether state incarceration rates for white and black males affect existing racial inequality in wages among men.  The other assesses whether changes in patterns of imprisonment might parallel the timing of changes in the sentencing of drug offenders and in welfare provisions.

Dr. Johnson has served as a grant reviewer for the Law and Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation and for the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship Panel in Sociology.  She has also served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Black Sociologists.