Education:
Postdoctoral Fellow. Brown University
Ph.D. Public and Urban Policy, New School for Social Research
MA. Urban and Regional Planning, Seoul National University
Research Areas:
Immigrant incorporation
Ethnic residential patterns
Suburban immigrant communities
Sookhee Oh is an urban sociologist interested
in immigrant spatial patterns and their social implications, including
suburban immigrant enclaves. She explored these topics in her Ph.D.
dissertation, which examined “spatial dispersion without ethnic
attenuation” in the case of suburban Koreans in the New York-New
Jersey area. Prior to joining University of Missouri, Kansas City
in 2007, she was a postdoctoral research associate in Spatial Structures
in the Social Sciences (S4) at Brown University. There, she worked
on immigrant political incorporation and is currently working on
publishing the project.
Teaching Areas:
Research Methods
Immigration
Urban Sociology
