2018-2019 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor

By

Nadia Y. Kim
CUNY Graduate Center
Department of Sociology

AAARI Friday Evening Lecture Series (October 19, 2018)
“We’re the New Citizenship”: LA’s 1st- & 2nd-Generation Asian and Latinx Activists on Politics as Embodied, Emotional & Transnational

College of Staten Island VELA: World on Wednesday (March 27, 2019)
Koreans and Race from Seoul to Los Angeles

CUNY Graduate Center Immigration Seminar Series (April 11, 2019)
Centering Nativist Racism: How Doing So Helps Us Grasp New Forms of Citizenship and Would Have Predicted Trump

The CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor will perform teaching, research, and guidance duties in area(s) of expertise as noted below; and share responsibility for committee and department assignments, performing administrative, supervisory, and other functions as assigned.

The Tam Visiting Professor will be based at one of the four CUNY campuses participating in the search, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Queens College or the Graduate Center. He or she will teach one class a semester at that campus and will engage with students and faculty members during the appointment. The Tam Visiting Professor will participate in public events designed to raise the visibility of scholarship in Asian American studies. This will include working closely with the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI).

This distinctive position presents an opportunity for a leading scholar to work in New York City’s diverse and dynamic environment while also working with AAARI and CUNY faculty to develop and enrich the CUNY research agenda in Asian American studies. Visiting faculty are individuals with a primary commitment to another accredited college or university who possess advanced scholarship or professional achievement.

Author Bio

Nadia Y. Kim is Claudius M. Easley, Jr. Faculty Fellow Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on U.S. race and citizenship hierarchies concerning Korean/Asian Americans and South Koreans, race and nativist racism in Los Angeles (e.g., 1992 LA Unrest), environmental (in)justice, immigrant women, and comparative racialization of Latinxs, Asian Americans, and Black Americans, and race theory. Throughout her work, Kim’s approach centers (neo)imperialism, transnationality, and the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and citizenship.

Dr. Kim has written two multi-award-winning books, the most recent, Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA (Stanford University Press), examines Asian and Latina immigrant women's movements for clean air. Her second book, Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA (Stanford, 2008), is an exploration of how immigrants navigate American imperial racism. Her third book, co-edited with Dr. Pawan Dhingra, Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies (NYU Press, 2023), addresses how sociology (and other social sciences) benefit from engaging with critical ethnic studies.

Dr. Kim has also (co)authored articles in anthologies and volumes of the top academic journals: Social Forces, Social Problems, International Migration Review, and The Du Bois Review. She and/or her work have been featured (inter)nationally on such fora as Red Table Talk, National Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, Radio Korea, local TV news and in The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, (MS)NBC News, The Boston Globe, The Korea Times, and NYLON Magazine.