Dr. Joo Ok Kim

Joo Ok Kim is assistant professor of American Studies and Latina/o Studies at the University of Kansas. She is associate faculty at KU's Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Latinx Studies Initiative. Professor Kim earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, San Diego, her M.A. in English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and her B.A. in English at KU. From 2013-15, Professor Kim was UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests focus on race and the Korean War, Latina/o studies, Asian American studies, transpacific and transnational studies, and literary and cultural studies. Her book project, Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War, examines the racial legacies of the Korean War through Chicano cultural production and U.S. archives of white supremacy. Her work can be found in the Journal of Asian American Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, south: a scholarly journal, and MELUS (forthcoming). Professor Kim's research has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, the Library of Congress, and the American Philosophical Society.