Dr. Nadia Kim became a distinguished endowed Professor at TAMU this year: she was awarded the George Sumey Jr. Professorship in Liberal Arts. The previous award of the George Sumey Jr. Professorship went to Dr. Steven Oberhelman at Bush School.
An endowed professorship honors an outstanding professor. The professorship supports research expenses, funding for graduate assistants, and travel costs.
Dr. Nadia Kim’s research focuses on US race and citizenship hierarchies concerning Korean/Asian Americans, South Koreans, and Latinx immigrants, and on fights against environmental racism/classism (esp. by women) and on comparative racialization of Latinxs and Asian and Black Americans. Throughout her work, Kim’s approach centers (neo)imperialism, transnationality, and intersectionality, and more recently, neoliberalism and the sociology of emotions and the body.
Kim is author of two multi-award-winning books with Stanford Press – “Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA” (2008) and “Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA” (2021)–, co-edited “Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic & Indigenous Studies” (NYU, 2023) & wrote award-winning journal articles on race and assimilation and on racial attitudes. Kim has also organized on issues of immigration, affirmative action, and environmental justice and her work has appeared (inter)nationally on National Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, Red Table Talk, Radio Korea, and in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Korea Times, NYLON Magazine, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Congratulations on such a distinguished achievement!