Nan Kim

  • Associate Professor, History
  • Public History Director, History

Education

  • PhD, UC-Berkeley, Cultural Anthropology
  • MA, UC-Berkeley, Cultural Anthropology
  • BA, Princeton University, English

Courses Taught

  • HIST 141 Global History of the Family, Gender, and Sexuality
  • HIST 372 Topics in Global History: The Korean War
  • HIST 372 Topics in Global History: Water and Environment in the Nuclear Age*
  • HIST 399 Honors Seminar: The History of Emotions
  • HIST 700 Introduction to Public History
  • DAC 788 Practicum in Digital Cultures

*Course development supported by the Title VI National Resource Center for International Studies

Teaching Interests

  • Trauma and memory
  • Korea in global history
  • Social movements and participatory democracy
  • Inclusive peace processes
  • Contemporary history and the anthropology of politics
  • Public history

Research Interests

  • Trauma and memory
  • Korea in global history
  • Social movements and participatory democracy
  • Inclusive peace processes
  • Contemporary history and the anthropology of politics
  • Public history

Related Activities

  • Affiliated Faculty Member of Department of Anthropology, Honors College, and Women’s & Gender Studies
  • Advisory Council Member for Center for 21st Century Studies, UW-Milwaukee College of Letters & Science
  • Advisory Board Member for the graduate certificate programs: Museum Studies; Digital Cultures
  • Advisory Committee Member for the undergraduate programs: International Studies; Asian Studies
  • Memory Studies Consultant at the America’s Black Holocaust Museum
  • Editorial Board Member  for Critical Asian Studies
  • Board Member for Women Cross DMZ

Selected Publications

Kim, Nan. “Contemporary History and the Contingency of the Present” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 5.1 Ed. Chen, Tina, and Schieder, Chelsea S.(2019): 108-113.
Kim, Nan. “South Korean Youth Activism in the Longue Durée” No 31.2 Seoul: Seoul Journal of Korean Studies. (2018): 259-264.
Kim, Nan. Review |Korea's Grievous War| by Su-kyoung Hwang 22.2 New York, NY: Journal of Korean Studies. 2017: 465-469