Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D., Sociology
2003
A.M, Sociology
2000
A.B., English and Sociology
1996
2016-2017, selected in recognition of teaching excellence
2014 Nominee, Daum Professorship, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, Loyola Marymount University
2012 Early Career Award, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association
2012 College Fellowship, Loyola Marymount University Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts (2 given college-wide)
2010 Best Research Paper Award, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association
2009 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
2009 Book of the Year Award, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association
2009 Early Career Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
2005 Selected participant – International Migration Summer Institute, Social Science Research Council (at University of California-Irvine)
2003 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Distinguished Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention
2003-04 Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow – Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California-San Diego
2002-03 Predoctoral Fellow – Northeast Consortium Dissertation-in-Residence Fellowship Program
2001-02 Sociologists for Women in Society Minority Scholar Award
2000 First Place Award – Graduate Student Paper Competition, 30th Annual Association of Black Sociologists Conference, Washington D.C. (with T. Forman)
2000 First Place Award – Graduate Student Paper Competition, 10th Annual Students of Color of Rackham Conference, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (with T. Forman)
1999-02 Fellow – American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program (General)
1999 Society for the Study of Social Problems Minority Fellowship – Honorable Mention
KPCC radio
2017-04-28
The animosity created by the Latasha Harlins shooting, combined with the arson and looting directed against Korean businesses 25 years ago, sparked a shift after the smoke cleared and the broken glass was swept away. But what changed after the riots in the Korean American and African American communities? Take Two put that question to Nadia Kim, professor of sociology at Loyola Marymount University, and Erin Aubry Kaplan, a journalist who has written extensively about the riots.
view moreLoyola Marymount University
2017-2018
Loyola Marymount University
2017-2018
Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles
Awarded for the project “Can’t We All Finally Get Along?: Race Relations in Los Angeles Twenty-Five Years After King”
view moreHonors Program: American Persona
Senior Capstone Seminar: Immigrants, Community & Environmental Politics
Principles of Sociology
Sociology of Immigration
Ethnic Communities / Race & Ethnic Relations
Gender and Global Migration (course on global/transnational migration)
Chapter in Brill Companion in North Korean American Studies
Forthcoming. "Race-ing the Korean American Experience." Chapter in Brill Companion in North Korean American Studies, Shelley Lee and Rachel Joo, eds.
Sociologicical Perspectives
2016. "'Success is Relative': Comparative Social Class and Ethnic Effects in an Academic Paradox" (with Christine Oh). Sociologicical Perspectives 59(2):270-295.
International Migration Review
2013. “Relocating Prejudice: A Transnational Approach to Understanding Immigrants’ Racial Attitudes” (with Wendy D. Roth). International Migration Review 47(2):330-73.
Sociology Compass
2013. “Citizenship on the Margins: A Critique of Scholarship on Marginalized Women and Community Activism.” Sociology Compass 7(6):459-70 (June). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12042/abstract
view moreRacism in Post-Racism America: New Theories, New Directions
2008. “Critical Thoughts on Asian American Assimilation in the Whitening Literature.” Pp. 53-66 in Racism in Post-Racism America: New Theories, New Directions, edited by Charles A. Gallagher. Chapel Hill, NC: Social Forces.
The Du Bois Review
2008. “A Return to More Blatant Class and ‘Race’ Bias in US Immigration Policy?” The Du Bois Review 4(2):469-477.
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