Jun Hong
Position Title
Associate Professor, Social Work
Biography
Dr. Jun Sung Hong received his Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He became an associate professor (tenure) in 2019. He was an adjunct assistant professor at Sungkyunkwan University (summer) in Seoul, South Korea from 2015 to 2019.
For the past several years, Sung Hong has primarily researched factors associated with bias-based bullying and peer victimization (both face-to-face and cyberbullying) of racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, LGBTQ, juvenile justice-involved, and economically disenfranchised adolescents and young adults in the United States. He has collaborated with scholars in South Korea, Taiwan, Sweden, Scotland, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil, Germany, China, Hong Kong, and Ukraine on research projects. In 2017, he was a keynote speaker in Sweden and Taiwan. His research has been published in major peer-reviewed journals.