Nadia Y. Kim 
Professor of Sociology | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
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Biography
Nadia Y. Kim is the Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University. She attended public schools, graduated magna cum laude at University of California-Santa Barbara (English and Sociology), and received her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor where she was an American Sociological Association Minority Fellow. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at University of California-San Diego.
Her research focuses on transnational experiences of US race and citizenship inequalities among Korean/Asian Americans and South Koreans in (neo)imperial context; on race/gender/class intersectionality; on the body and citizenship for Asian Americans & Latinos; on South Korean society and ethnoraciality & gender; on Latino & Asian American children of immigrants; on immigrant community politics; and on cultural globalization.
Kim is author of Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA (Stanford, 2008), an exploration of how immigrants navigate American race inequality and ideology (owing to US power abroad) not just after US arrival but before it, and through transnationally connecting both societies. Imperial Citizens won two American Sociological Association (ASA) awards in 2009: Book of the Year Award from the Asia and Asian America section and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities section. She also won two ASA Early Career Awards (one from each section) in part because of the book and and has won three top awards for single- and co-authored research articles from professional academic organizations.
Education (3)
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: Ph.D., Sociology 2003
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: A.M, Sociology 2000
University of California at Santa Barbara: A.B., English and Sociology 1996
Areas of Expertise (18)
Migration
Immigration
Race and Ethnicity
Gender and Transnationality/Globalization
Race/Gender/Class Intersectionality
Immigrant Community Politics
Feminist Theory
Asian Pacific American History
Gender and Women's Studies
Social-Cultural Citizenship
Citizenship and the Body/Embodiment
Environmental Health Justice
Transnational Race Theorizing
Urban Community Politics
South Korea
Asian American Studies
Global Culture
Transnationalism
Accomplishments (17)
LMU Women's Basketball Team Honorary Coach (personal)
2016-2017, selected in recognition of teaching excellence
Nominee, Daum Professorship (professional)
2014 Nominee, Daum Professorship, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, Loyola Marymount University
Early Career Award, Section on Asia and Asian America (professional)
2012 Early Career Award, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association
College Fellowship (professional)
2012 College Fellowship, Loyola Marymount University Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts (2 given college-wide)
Best Research Paper Award, Section on Asia and Asian America (professional)
2010 Best Research Paper Award, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association
Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (professional)
2009 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
Book of the Year Award, Section on Asia and Asian America (professional)
2009 Book of the Year Award, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association
Early Career Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (professional)
2009 Early Career Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
Selected participant – International Migration Summer Institute (professional)
2005 Selected participant – International Migration Summer Institute, Social Science Research Council (at University of California-Irvine)
Honorable Mention, Distinguished Dissertation Award (professional)
2003 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Distinguished Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention
Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow (professional)
2003-04 Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow – Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California-San Diego
Predoctoral Fellow (professional)
2002-03 Predoctoral Fellow – Northeast Consortium Dissertation-in-Residence Fellowship Program
Sociologists for Women in Society Minority Scholar Award (professional)
2001-02 Sociologists for Women in Society Minority Scholar Award
First Place Award – Graduate Student Paper Competition (personal)
2000 First Place Award – Graduate Student Paper Competition, 30th Annual Association of Black Sociologists Conference, Washington D.C. (with T. Forman)
First Place Award – Graduate Student Paper Competition (personal)
2000 First Place Award – Graduate Student Paper Competition, 10th Annual Students of Color of Rackham Conference, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (with T. Forman)
Fellow (professional)
1999-02 Fellow – American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program (General)
Honorable Mention (professional)
1999 Society for the Study of Social Problems Minority Fellowship – Honorable Mention
Affiliations (12)
- Women's & Gender Studies (LMU)
- Asian Pacific American Studies (LMU)
- American Sociological Association
- Association of Asian American Studies
- American Studies Association
- Sociologists for Women in Society
- Pacific Sociological Association
- Communities for a Better Environment
- Coalition for a Safe Environment
- People’s Core (Carson CA)
- The Children’s Clinic (Long Beach CA)
- Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma (Long Beach CA)
Links (5)
Languages (3)
- English
- Korean (advanced)
- Spanish (basic)
Media Appearances (1)
LA Riots: After the smoke settled, blacks and Korean-Americans faced contrasting realities
KPCC radio
2017-04-28
The animosity created by the Latasha Harlins shooting, combined with the arson and looting directed against Korean businesses 25 years ago, sparked a shift after the smoke cleared and the broken glass was swept away. But what changed after the riots in the Korean American and African American communities? Take Two put that question to Nadia Kim, professor of sociology at Loyola Marymount University, and Erin Aubry Kaplan, a journalist who has written extensively about the riots.
Research Grants (3)
LMU Faculty Research and Writing Grant
Loyola Marymount University
2017-2018
LMU Course Immersion Grant
Loyola Marymount University
2017-2018
Faculty Research Fellowship
Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles
Awarded for the project “Can’t We All Finally Get Along?: Race Relations in Los Angeles Twenty-Five Years After King”
Courses (6)
Honors Program: American Persona
Honors Program: American Persona
Senior Capstone Seminar: Immigrants, Community & Environmental Politics
Senior Capstone Seminar: Immigrants, Community & Environmental Politics
Principles of Sociology
Principles of Sociology
Sociology of Immigration
Sociology of Immigration
Ethnic Communities / Race & Ethnic Relations
Ethnic Communities / Race & Ethnic Relations
Gender and Global Migration
Gender and Global Migration (course on global/transnational migration)
Articles (7)
Forthcoming. "Race-ing the Korean American Experience." Chapter in Brill Companion in North Korean American Studies, Shelley Lee and Rachel Joo, eds.
2016. "'Success is Relative': Comparative Social Class and Ethnic Effects in an Academic Paradox" (with Christine Oh). Sociologicical Perspectives 59(2):270-295.
2013. “Relocating Prejudice: A Transnational Approach to Understanding Immigrants’ Racial Attitudes” (with Wendy D. Roth). International Migration Review 47(2):330-73.
2013. “Citizenship on the Margins: A Critique of Scholarship on Marginalized Women and Community Activism.” Sociology Compass 7(6):459-70 (June). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12042/abstract
2008. “Critical Thoughts on Asian American Assimilation in the Whitening Literature.” Pp. 53-66 in Racism in Post-Racism America: New Theories, New Directions, edited by Charles A. Gallagher. Chapel Hill, NC: Social Forces.
2008. “A Return to More Blatant Class and ‘Race’ Bias in US Immigration Policy?” The Du Bois Review 4(2):469-477.
See CV for complete list
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