Hyun Sook Kim
Professor of Sociology, Associate Provost
Office: Knapton 221
Phone: (508) 286-3657
Fax: (508) 286-3640
Email: hkim@wheatoncollege.edu
Personal web page
Degrees
Ph.D., M.A., New School for Social Research
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests
Nation/State Violence; Gender, Nationalism & Conflict; Postcolonial & Transnational Feminist Theories; Gender & Transnational Migration
Teaching Interests
Conflict & Genocide; Global Inequality; Social Movements; Transnational Migration; Feminist Theory; Feminist Sociology; Asian Diaspora
Other Interests
Collaborative Research on Caribbean Teacher Migration (Mars Faculty-Student Research Fellowships, Wheaton Research Partnerships)
Student Projects
Food for Justice; ECCO House (Student Initiative for Environmental and Ecological Sustaintabiliy); Youth & Reconciliation in South Africa; U.S. Nationalism and Muslim Immigrant Communities
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
Recent Publications:
2005. "Decolonizing the 'Self' & 'Other': Black, Postcolonial and Transnational Feminist Theories." The Handbook on Feminist Research: Theory and Paxis, edited by Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Sage, Forthcoming Fall 2005).
2005. Special Issue on "Gender-Sexuality-State-Nation." Gender & Society 19(2), (April), Co-editor.
2005. "Conceptualizing Gender-Sexuality-State-Nation: An Introduction." Gender & Society, 19(2), (April), Co-author.
2005. "History and Memory: The 'Comfort Women' Controversy." Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Edited by Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyn (Duke University Press).
2002. "Contested Pasts and Uncharted Futures: Questions about Truths, Justice and Reconciliation." History & Society (Sahoewa Yoksa), (May Issue). Special Issue on "Social History of Commissioning the Past."
2001. "Korea's Vietnam Question: War Atrocities, National Identity and Reconciliation in Asia." Positions: east asia cultures critique 9(3).