Richard S. Kim
Associate Professor of Asian American Studies
Richard S. Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Davis. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Michigan in 2002. He also obtained a M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA in 1993. His research and teaching interests include Asian American history, 20th century U.S. history, transnationalism and diaspora, war and imperialism, race and ethnicity, political movements, and labor studies.
He is the author of The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is currently editing the memoir of ex-Death Row inmate Chol Soo Lee as well as preparing a manuscript on Chol Soo Lee's legal cases and the development of a pan-Asian Free Chol Soo Lee movement.
Spring Quarter 2012
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 11 - 12:30 pm or by appointment
He is the author of The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is currently editing the memoir of ex-Death Row inmate Chol Soo Lee as well as preparing a manuscript on Chol Soo Lee's legal cases and the development of a pan-Asian Free Chol Soo Lee movement.
Spring Quarter 2012
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 11 - 12:30 pm or by appointment