Profile

Hosu Kim is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, an affiliated faculty of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the College of Staten Island and Critical Social Psychology program at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Her first book, Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea: Virtual Mothering, published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2016. It examines South Korea’s transnational adoption practice with a focus on the material, affective, and discursive processes of becoming birth mothers. Her current project explores the material, social, cultural traces of the missing at the sites of state and imperial violence in South Korea and Staten Island for alternative ethics and politics of repair in more than human world. Her research interests include transpacific critique of Asian/Asian America, disability studies and critical university studies.