Featured Scholar
Each month during the academic year, the UWM Libraries highlight a UWM scholar who has recently worked closely with the Libraries. This month we are featuring:
Nan Kim
Department of History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007
Nan Kim, Assistant Professor in UWM's History Department, will give a presentation, "Korean Cosmopolitanisms," in the American Geographical Society Library's lecture series, UWM's Academic Adventurers, on February 10, 2012.
Professor Kim's teaching areas are modern East Asia, social and cultural history, the Korean War and global Cold War, family, and gender. This semester she is teaching an Honors Seminar on “History, Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia” and a lecture course in the History Department called “The Family and Sex Roles in the Past.”
Her research interests include divided Korea, contemporary history of East Asia, cultural politics of war memory, cultural and political anthropology, family and kinship, and cosmopolitanism. She has organized an upcoming conference session called "Solidarity and Trespasses: Cultural Formations of Cold War Cosmopolitanism in East Asia," for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Toronto, Canada.
Professor Kim's recent presentations and publications include:
- "Intimate Cold War Legacies, Neoliberal Mediations and the Transmission of Affect in South Korea," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, November 2011.
- "Korea on the Brink: Reading the Yŏnp’yŏng Shelling and its Aftermath," Journal of Asian Studies, 70:2 (May 2011) 337-356.
- “Cultural Anthropology, Korean Studies, and Histories of the Present,” Yeongwol-Yonsei International Forum (Yeongwol, South Korea) May, 2011
- "Reviving the War Dead: 'Reunions,' Kinship and the Temporality of the Cold War in Divided Korea," Cold War Cultures Conference, University of Texas at Austin, October 2010.
- “Impossible Returns: The Temporary Border-Crossings of Separated Korean Family Members,” paper presented on the panel," Crossing the Divide: Migration and Disruptions of Identity among North Koreans and South Koreans," Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March, 2010.
- "Mourning Those who Waited: Mediations of Political Technology and the Return of the Korean War's Presumed Dead." 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 2008.