Christine Kim

Christine Kim is Professor of Teaching in the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University. A historian of modern Korea, she teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, on subjects ranging from comparative colonialisms to Korea-Japan relations, historical film, and the Pacific world. Her research and writing focus on national identity, material culture, and political movements. The King Is Dead (in prep.) explores the ways that colonization and modernization influenced Korean polity and identity during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is also engaged in a study examining cultural heritage and arts management in Korea in the twentieth century. Kim is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including ones from the Department of Education (Fulbright-Hays), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Korea Foundation, the Academy of Korean Studies, and the East-West Center.