Jaeeun Kim
· Korea Foundation Endowed Associate Professor of Sociology, Professor of Law (by courtesy)University of Michigan · Religious Studies
Active 2008–2021
About
Jaeeun Kim is a political sociologist and law and society scholar interested in questions of human mobility, inequality, power, and agency. She seeks to develop a relational, processual, and agentic account of categorization and identification, particularly in contexts in which such practices have significant implications for inequality at local, national, and global levels. Her research takes a transnational and global perspective, systematically considering sending and transit contexts in studying international migration by adopting a multi-sited approach to research. Her work has been supported by various organizations including the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Academy of Korean Studies. She has published in journals covering sociological theory, law and society, race/ethnicity/migration, and historical sociology. Her first monograph, based on her award-winning dissertation, was published at Stanford University Press in 2016 and has received multiple awards including the Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award, the Book Award on Asia/Transnational, the Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award, and the James B. Palais Book Prize (Honorable Mention). Her recent article in Sociological Theory, titled 'Migration-Facilitating Capital: A Bourdieusian Theory of International Migration,' received the 2019 Theory Prize from the ASA Theory Section. She is currently working on her second book project about the asylum-seeking of unauthorized migrants on religious grounds, based on ongoing multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork. Prior to her current position at the University of Michigan, she earned her PhD from UCLA, was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton and Stanford, and taught at George Mason University. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, where she will hold a non-resident permanent fellow position from 2024 to 2029.
Research topics
- Materials science
- Computer science
- Optoelectronics
- Nanotechnology
- Chemistry
Frequent coauthors
- 61 shared
Seung‐Hyub Baek
Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- 42 shared
Seong Keun Kim
Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- 37 shared
Do Hyun Kang
- 36 shared
Won‐Kyung Cho
University of Ulsan
- 31 shared
Kyeongwoon Chung
Kyungpook National University
- 30 shared
Sungbaek Seo
Pusan National University
- 30 shared
Bong‐Gi Kim
Konkuk University
- 30 shared
Wenhao Shao
Purdue University West Lafayette
Awards & honors
- Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the American Sociologi…
- three book prizes and one honorable mention from the America…
- Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award from the ASA I…
- Book Award on Asia/Transnational from the ASA Asia/Asian Ame…
- Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award from SSHA (2017)
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