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Richard Kim

Richard S. Kim is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Asian American Studies. His research and teaching interests include 20th century U.S. history, Asian American history, transnationalism and diaspora, race and ethnicity, and social and political movements. He is the author of The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2011).