Claire Jean Kim

Associate Professor, Political Science School of Social Sciences
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies School of Humanities
Ph.D., Yale University B.A., Harvard College

3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA 5100

Phone: (949) 824-3192
Email: cjkim@uci.edu

Claire Jean Kim holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Political Science and Asian American Studies. She also holds a courtesy appointment in African American Studies. She is the author of Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City (Yale University Press, 2000) which won the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Award for the best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism. From 1999-2000, Kim was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In Fall 2009, she will be a fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her current book project explores the intersections of race, culture, nation, and species in the contemporary U.S.

Fields of Interest:
Race and ethnicity, minority politics, social movements, immigration, multiculturalism, intersectionality

Publications
Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City
Yale University Press, 2000