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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. Review Forum | "Korea in the 1950s and the Korean War" | Journal of American-East Asian Relations | Guest-edited by Steven Hugh Lee and Janice Kim H-Diplo. 2019.
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 | Challenges of Modernization and Governance in South Korea: The Sinking of the Sewol and Its Causes | Edited by Jae-Jung Suh and Mikyoung Kim 77.4 Ann Arbor, MI: The Journal of Asian Studies. 2018: 1102-1104
Kim, Nan. “The Color of Dissent and a Vital Politics of Fragility in South Korea” The Journal of Asian Studies 77.4 (2018): 971-990.
Kim, Nan. Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions of Separated Families in South Korea: Crossing the Divide Lanham, MD: Lexington. 2017: 284 pages
Kim, Nan. Review |Korea's Grievous War| by Su-kyoung Hwang 22.2 New York, NY: Journal of Korean Studies. 2017: 465-469
Kim, Nan. “Candlelight and the Yellow Ribbon: Catalyzing Re-Democratization in South Korea” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 15.5 (2017): 1-17.
Kim, Nan. “Reuniting Families, Reframing the Korean War: Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Vernacular Memory” Routledge Handbook on Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia Ed. Kim, Mikyoung. New York and London: Routledge. (2016): 336-353.
Kim, Nan. “Korea on the Brink: Reading the Yŏnp'yŏng Shelling and its Aftermath” Journal of Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press 70.2 Ed. Wasserstrom, Jeffrey. (2011): 337-356.