Sandra So Hee Chi Kim, PH.D.                                                                                       

IDEA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies           

                            
Ph.D.  University of Southern California, 2017

Topic Areas: The Korean War, Militarization, U.S. empire, coloniality, transnational Korean/American studies, Asian American studies,  critical ethnic studies

Office: 1043 Humanities

Email: sandra.kim@stonybrook.edu 

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• Biography

  Dr. Sandra So Hee Chi Kim (she/her) is an IDEA fellow in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies. A transnational cultural studies scholar with specializations in transpacific Asian American studies, critical Korean studies, and the study of modern empire, her research explores the intersections of race, global coloniality, ethnonationalisms, migration, and culture. Her articles have appeared in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Positions: Asia Critique, Korean Studies, and Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, among other journals, and is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Kinning Empire: Transcoloniality, Kinship, and Korean Historical Trauma. Dr. Kim is also the founder and co-director of the grassroots community organization, Asian American Justice + Innovation Lab, and the 2023 recipient of the David L. Ferguson Award for Excellence in Inclusive Teaching.

• Courses Taught

  The Unending Korean War

  Korean American Literature

  The Korean War in Transcultural Memory

• Publications

  “Ethical Memory and Re-presenting History Across Empire: The Korean War in Rolando Hinojosa’s Klail City Death Trip.” Journal of the Southwest. 65.1: 1-25 (2023) • refereed

  “Confronting Epistemologies of the Korean War: Warring Genealogies.” Forthcoming in American Literary History • invited book review

  2022 “Centering the Ocean in the “Transpacific” and Decolonizing Asian American Studies.”Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. 11.1• invited book review

  2018“Forbidden Relations: South Korean Incest Dramas and the Crisis of Interrupted Kinship.” Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. 12 • refereed

  2017 “Korean Han and the Postcolonial Afterlives of ‘The Beauty of Sorrow’.” Korean Studies. 41: 253-279 •refereed

  2016“Suji Kwock Kim’s “Generation” and the Ethics of Diasporic Postmemory.” positions: asia critique. 24.3: 653-667 (2016) • refereed

  2013“Redefining Diaspora through a Phenomenology of Postmemory.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. 16.3: 337–352 • refereed

  2012“Deimperializing Cultural Studies: ‘Asian Studies in Asia’.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. 34:2-3 • book review