Heather Beth Johnson
 Assistant Professor of Sociology
 Director of Graduate Studies

  Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  681 Taylor Street
  Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
  Phone: 610-758-3816
  E-mail: hbj2@lehigh.edu


Ph.D. in Sociology, Northeastern University, 2001

My personal Web site

Courses taught
Introduction to Sociology and Social Psychology
Sociology of Education
Race and Ethnicity
Race and Class in America
Urban Education: Inequality and Public Policy

Recent Publications
Johnson, Heather Beth. The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity, August, 2006, Routledge.

Shapiro, Thomas M. and Heather Beth Johnson. 2005. “Family Assets and School Access: Race and Class in the Structuring of Educational Opportunity,” p. 112-127 in Michael Sherraden, ed., Inclusion in the American Dream: Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy, Oxford University Press.

Shapiro, Thomas M. and Heather Beth Johnson. 2005. “Race, Assets, and Choosing Schools: Current School Choices and the Future of Vouchers,” p. 244-262 in Amy Stuart Wells and Janice Petrovich, eds., Bringing Equity Back: Research for a New Era in American Educational Policy, Teachers College Press.