Hosu Kim is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the College of Staten Island and a doctoral faculty of the Critical Social Psychology program at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Her current project, From the Ground of Missing: Ethics and Politics of Repair and State Violence in Korea examines multiple sites of the disappearance at the sites of the state and imperial violence in South Korea. By employing “missing” as a method, she interrogates epistemological limit of major truth-seeking efforts and explores alternative ethics and politics of repair. She is also author of Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea: Virtual Mothering, published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2016.
Degrees
B.S. Dong – A University
M.A. Indiana State University
Ph.D. City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Dr. Kim has presented her work at a number of conferences both in the United States and in South Korea. Her work has appeared in Qualitative Inquiry, Scholars and Feminists Online, and has been translated into Korean for Theoria: A Journal of Feminist Theories and Practices. She is also a contributing author for the books, International Korean Adoption: A 50 year History of Policy and Practice (Binghamton: Haworth Press, 2007) and Affective Turns, edited by Patricia Clough and Jean Halley (Duke University, 2007). Currently, Professor Kim is working on a book manuscript based on her research on Korean birthmothers involved in transnational adoption.
