Karen Johnson-Webb
kdjohn@bgnet.bgsu.edu 
(419)372-9125
Curriculum vita

Associate Professor of Geography

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2000

Dr. Johnson-Webb's work documents the demographic characteristics and migratory origins of the rapid influx of Hispanic immigrants to North Carolina urban areas through mapping and other geographical techniques. She has extended this research to Midwest and to rural areas in Northwest Ohio. She also studies the social impacts of this rapid transformation of ethnically homogeneous communities that had seen little immigration in the past.

Recent Publications:

Johnson-Webb, K.D. and M.C. Zeller. 2007. The Culture of Economic Development in Ohio: A Case Study in Defiance County, Ohio Journal of Science, v. 107, n. 2, pp. 2-9.

Johnson-Webb, K.D. 2005. County and City Data. In Encyclopedia of Social Measurement Vol. 1, ed. Kimberly Kempf-Leonard , San Diego, CA: Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier Press.

Johnson-Webb, K.D. 2004/2005. The Role of Migration, Family Characteristics and English-Language Ability in Hispanic, African American and White Youth Academic Achievement, Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, Fall/Winter, V. xxiv, nos. 1 & 2, pp. 21-31.

Johnson-Webb, K.D. 2004. Technical Assistance for Local Workforce Policy Development: A University Policy Center and Local Workforce Policy Board Partnership, Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences, v. 27, pp. 458-467.