Professor, Political Science
School of Social Sciences

Professor, Asian American Studies
School of Humanities

Comparative race studies, Asian American politics, Afro-Asian politics, human-animal studies

Claire Jean Kim is Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies. Her first book, Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City (Yale University Press, 2000) is the recipient of the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Award for the Best Book on Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism and a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Her second book, Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age (Cambridge University Press, 2015), is the also the recipient of a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Dr. Kim has delivered numerous keynote talks within the U.S. and abroad. She has written many journal articles, book chapters, and essays, and she was co-editor of a special issue of American Quarterly entitled Species/Race/Sex (2013). She was the recipient of a grant from the University of California Center for New Racial Studies, and she has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. She has been a guest commentator on MSNBC and NPR, and her popular writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Ms. Magazine. She is regularly interviewed on podcasts, documentary films, and various media on topics relating to race, animals, and ecology.

Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

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

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04/17/2023