Hanmee Kim

Education

University of California, Los Angeles
Ph. D., Asian Languages and Cultures, 2014

University of California, Berkeley
M. A., Asian Studies, 2005

University of Chicago
B. A., International Studies, 2003

Areas of Expertise

Modern Korean History
East Asian History
Korea-U.S. Interactions

Research Interests

U.S.-Korea diplomatic/cultural/intellectual engagements, 1866-1965
Korean American students, 1884-1960
“Americanism” in East Asia, 1920-1945

Courses Taught

Introduction to Modern East Asia: 1895-Present
Origins, Politics, and Memories of the Korean War
The Meiji Restoration: The Construction of Modern Japan, 1868-1912
Modern Korean History
The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan
Christianity in East Asia
Christianity in Korea
First Year Seminar: Is the Good Life Culturally Specific?
Why History?

Selected Publications

Kahm, Howard, and Hanmee Na Kim. “Playing with Power” American Businessmen and the Electricity Industry in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Korea.” Journal of Korean Studies 29.1 (Spring 2024).

'America' in Colonial Korea: A Vantage Point for Capitalist Modernity, Positions: Asia Critique 26.4
Kim, Hanmee Na, November 2018

The Meanings of America in Modern Korea: A Study of Korean Diplomatic, Cultural, and Intellectual Engagements with America, 1852-1945, UCLA, 2014
The scholarship on the history of Korea-U.S. interactions (1866 onwards) remains limited from 1905 to 1945. As the Japanese protectorate ended Korea-U.S. diplomatic relations, scholars have often focused on the interactions up to 1905 and after 1945. In doing so, the literature occluded non-diplomatic interactions that continued throughout the colonial period and their significance to post-1945 relations and to Korean society generally. This dissertation redresses this issue by exploring pre-1945 Korean diplomatic, cultural, and intellectual engagements with America--with a focus on "Americanism" during the colonial period--and their significance to Korean society.

FORTHCOMING

Yu, Kilchun. Observations on a Journey to the West: The Earliest Korean Account of Life in the Occident [Sŏyu kyŏnmun]. Translated by Sinwoo Lee, Hanmee Na Kim, and Frederick M. Ranallo-Higgins. Edited by John B. Duncan and Frederick M. Ranallo-Higgins. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2027.

IN REVISION

Kim, Hanmee Na. Korea’s America: The Development of Pro-Americanism, 1882-1945.

Links

2018-2019 U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholar

Professional Affiliations

Association for Asian Studies

Journal of Asian Studies—Book Review Editor (Korea)

Professional Appointment

2014-2015 Postdoctoral Scholar, Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California