Hanmee Kim, Ph.D.

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

• Modern Korean History
• East Asian History

• Korea-U.S. diplomatic/cultural/intellectual engagements, 1866-1965
  
• Korean overseas students in the U.S., 1884-1960
• Americanism in Korea, 1882-1945
  

• Introduction to Modern East Asia: 1895-1990
• 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 Study History?

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).

Kim, Hanmee Na. “‘America’ in Colonial Korea: A Vantage Point for Capitalist Modernity.” Positions: Asia Critique 26.4 (November 2018).

FORTHCOMING

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

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.

2018-2019 U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholar

Association for Asian Studies

Journal of Asian Studies—Book Review Editor (Korea)

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