Phd University of Michigan; BA Yale University
Monica Kim
Assistant Professor of History
U.S. and the World; Decolonization; Race, empire, and modern warfare; Transpacific Asian and Asian American history
2018: Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award, New York University
2015-2016: Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)
2012-2013: Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania
Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania
BOOKS
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The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold HistoryPrinceton: Princeton University Press, 2019
“The Intelligence of Fools: Reading the U.S. Military Archive of the Korean War,” (Special Issue: The Unending Korean War) positions: asia critique. 23:4 (November 2015), 695-728.
“Empire’s Babel: U.S. Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War,” History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History. 3:1 (Spring 2013), 1-28.
Roundtable on John Dower’s Cultures of War. Critical Asian Studies. 43:3 (September 2011), 421-461. Second roundtable published in Critical Asian Studies. 43:4 (December 2011), 617-624.
Review of Fujitani, Takashi, Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. June, 2014.
Review of Michael Cullen Green. Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010) in Journal of World History. 24:1 (March 2013), 247-250.