Nan Kim

Nan Kim is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is a fellow at the Center for 21st Century Studies. Her research focuses on contemporary Korea, traumatic memory, and transnational public history, and she is currently working on a project about long-term protest movements in South Korea. She is the author of Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide, Lexington. Last August, she co-organized an international conference entitled “Power and Dissent: Understanding Past and Present Challenges to Korean Society through Korean Studies” at Seoul National University’s Kyujanggak Institute.