Name Elaine Kim | Role Writer | |
Education Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania Books East to America, Fresh talk - daring gazes, Echoes Upon Echoes, Making More Waves | ||
Elaine H. Kim is an award-winning writer, editor and professor in Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Kim is widely published in her field. Some of her books are Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism (co-editor with Chungmoo Choi); Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women (co-editor with Lilia V. Villanueva and Asian Women United of California); and East to America: Korean-American Life Stories (co-editor with Eui-Young Yu). Kim has also produced several videos about Asian American women.
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Kim is the co-founder of the non-profit organization Asian Women United(AWU) of California, and was a former president at AWU. She also co-founded the Oakland Korean Community Center and the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates.
Biography
Kim received her B.A. in English and American Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from University of California, Berkeley.
Kim was a recipient of Rockefeller and Fulbright Fellow.