Monica Kim is an associate professor and the William Appleman Williams and David G. and Marion S. Meissner Chair in U.S. International and Diplomatic History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (from Princeton University Press), received top prizes from four different scholarly associations: the Association for Asian Studies, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Society for Military History, and the Association for Asian American Studies. Beyond the classroom, she has worked with feminist and critical scholars in the U.S. and South Korea around political and pedagogical interventions aimed at ending the ongoing Korean War. She was involved with community and campus organizing around Sanctuary during her tenure at New York University before arriving at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and is currently a member of the editorial collective at The Radical History Review.
A word from Anne Hansen, Interim Chair of History:
The Department of History celebrates the scholarly and activist accomplishments of Monica Kim, the Williams-Meissner Chair in US International & Diplomatic History. The originality and importance of her first book has repositioned interpretations of the Korean War and is the recipient of five major book prizes in fields from American foreign relations to Asian Studies.