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Bio

Aaron Johnson earned his PhD in sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder where he specialized in qualitative/interpretive and environmental sociology. He also has a Master's degree in Education from CU Boulder and a Bachelor's degree from Messiah University (Mechanicsburg, PA) in Sport and Exercise Science. Professor Johnson merges these diverse interests in his teaching and research. Dr. Johnson's teaching interests are primarily pedagogical, including critical and constructivist approaches; scientific and statistical literacy; “thinking like a sociologist” (teaching of and through sociology); service and community-based learning; as well as Universal Design for Learning. Dr. Johnson's research interests lie at the intersection of the study of deviance and crime, education, and the environment. Specific interests include cannabis normalization, roadway crime and deviance, juvenile justice and restorative justice, environmentally-oriented crime and green criminology, as well as the effectiveness of teaching pedagogies, particularly as they pertain to historically underserved groups. Currently Dr. Johnson is working on a project to better integrate the social psychological and interactional aspects of everyday embodied mobility in efforts to encourage more people to ride bicycles more frequently and more safely, and also serves as the Principal Investigator and Discovery Scholars Faculty Mentor for the Southern Colorado Cannabis Industry Ethnography.
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