Hello!

Nadia Kim is the George Sumey Jr Professor in the Liberal Arts and the Claudius M. Easley Jr Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University (Department of Sociology). Her research focuses on US race and citizenship hierarchies concerning Korean/Asian Americans and South Koreans, race and nativist racism in Los Angeles (e.g., 1992 LA Unrest), environmental (in)justice, immigrant women, and comparative racialization of Latinxs, Asian Americans, and Black Americans, and race theory. Throughout her work, Kim’s approach centers (neo)imperialism, transnationality, and the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and nation/citizenship.

In addition to numerous articles, Dr. Kim has written two multi-award-winning books, the most recent of which is Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA (Stanford University Press, 2021), which examines Asian and Latina immigrant women's movements for clean air. Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA (Stanford, 2008), is an exploration of how immigrants navigate American imperial racism. Her book co-edited with Dr. Pawan Dhingra, Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies (NYU Press, 2023), addresses how sociology (and other social sciences) benefit from engaging with critical ethnic studies. Kim has long intersected her scholarship with her social justice work, organizing on such issues as affirmative action, immigration, feminism, and environmental justice, all of which were shaped by living in St. John’s (Newfoundland), Seoul, Florence, New York City, and by visiting her diasporic family in Brasil.In her spare time, Dr. Kim loves to sing/karaoke/noraebang, dance, commune with the ocean and animals, meditate, and travel (even with her kids!).