Biography

A photo of Heeju Sohn in front of a window overlooking the ocean and green grass.

I am a social demographer, and my work reveals how social structures create and reinforce health inequities between classes, races/ethnicities, and genders. I view interactions between social structures and health as fluid processes and use demographic methods to model their dynamics across geographies and time.

I am an assistant professor at Emory University’s Department of Sociology. Before moving to Atlanta, I lived in more than ten cities around the world including London, New York, Los Angeles, and Seoul.  

A photo of Heeju Sohn in front of a window overlooking the ocean and green grass.

Education

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  • 2015 Ph.D. Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania 
  • 2012 M.S. Demography, University of Pennsylvania 
  • 2008 M.Eng. Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University 
  • 2007 B.S. Hotel Administration, Cornell University