Hyun Sook Kim

Professor of Sociology

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

Global Inequality & Social Change; Transnational Migration; Modernity & Genocide; Postcolonial Theory & Sociology

Student Projects

Studies of genocides, American Orientalism, sustainability and activism

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, 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).