Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Cornell University
307 Carson Hall
(603) 646-2339
(603) 646-3353
E-mail: Jean.Kim@Dartmouth.edu
Professor Kim's research interests are in medicine, race, and migration. Her current project, a book based on her dissertation, “Empire at the Crossroads of Modernity,” examines the development of healthcare institutions on Hawaii's sugar plantations during the territorial period. By attending to local, national, and international influences on the corporate and state management of bodies and difference, she hopes to contribute to new ways of understanding Hawaiian and U.S. History, as well as race relations, immigration, indigenity, and imperial nationalisms. Her next project focuses on racial intelligence testing and its practical application in the organization of local and national communities.
"'Embodied' Technologies: Entomology and Plant Science in the Sugar Cane Colonization of Hawai'i," América Aquí: Transhemispheric Visions and Community Connections, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 11, 2007
"From Sanitary to Sexual Citizenship: Reproducing U.S. Empire in Rural and Urban Hawai’i, 1900-1935," Asian American Studies Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, November 26, 2007
“Plantation Medicine and U.S. Imperial Power in Territorial Hawai’i, 1898-1946,” Imagining and Practicing Imperial and Colonial Medicine, 1870-1960, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, England, Jan 10-12, 2008
“Citizens' Quarters, Boarding Houses, and Family Homes: The Gendered and Racial Architecture of Plantation Labor, 1918-1938,” Association for Asian American Studies, Chicago, IL, April 16-20, 2008
Invited Research Presentation, Asian American Studies Symposium, Fordham University, NYC, June 6-7, 2008.
Chair, "The U.S. Militarization of the Pacific: Oceanic Crossings in the Colonial Present,"Back Down to the Crossroads: Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, October 16-19, 2008.
