Dr. Julie Park is associate professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she currently serves as the Director of Asian American Studies. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Global Migration Studies and a faculty associate of the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC). Park's research focuses most broadly on the adaptation process of immigrants and their children in the United States, which includes the areas of immigration, demography, race, and urban studies. Specifically, she examines how immigrants improve their socioeconomic status with longer duration in the U.S. She developed the immigrant generation cohort method to assess intergenerational mobility across immigrant generations. Her research also considers how residential segregation changes in new and established immigrant gateways, and assesses the health and health care access assimilation process of immigrants. Her work has been published in Demography, International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and the American Journal of Public Health.