Lili M. Kim

Biography
Lili M. Kim, Henry R. Luce Assistant Professor of History and Global Migrations, is a historian specializing in 20th-century U.S. history, race and ethnicity, women’s history, and Asian American history. She received her B.A. in history and certificate in gender studies from Lawrence University and her Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Rochester. Prior to coming to Hampshire, she has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was the Institute of American Cultures Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies. Her research and teaching interests include racial identity formation, interethnic relations, women of color and labor, U.S. imperialism in Asia-Pacific, and transnational migration history. Her works and reviews have been published in Amerasia Journal, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Journal of American History, Journal of Asian American Studies, Journal of American Ethnic History, Notable American Women, Major Problems in Asian American History, and Asian/Pacific American Women: A Historical Anthology. She is currently revising and completing a book manuscript entitled, Race War: The Predicament of Korean Americans and Their Transnational Politics on the Homefront during World War II, which investigates the experience of Korean Americans in Hawai‘i and California during World War II against the backdrop of Japanese American internment. She is also in the early stage of her second book-length research project, In Transit: Korean Immigrants in Argentina and Their Remigration to the United States, which has been supported by the Korean Foundation Field Research Fellowship, the National Endowment for Humanities Summer Stipend, and the Fulbright Fellowship. She will be teaching and researching in Buenos Aires, Argentina in summer 2007 as a Fulbright scholar. Professor Kim will be on leave the 2007-2008 academic year.

Courses

 * U.S. Imperialism and Hawai'i: A Comparative History
 * Black and Yellow Encounters: Race, Labor, Immigration and the Emergence of the Third World Left