Department of Sociology

Minjeong Kim

Assistant Professor

 

Joined Virginia Tech: 2008

 

Bachelor's Ohio State University
Master's SUNY Albany
Doctorate SUNY Albany
 

Research Interests:

Global gender issues
Gender, race and citizenship
Global feminist theories
Feminist qualitative methods
Asian American Studies
Race, gender and sexuality in the media

Publications:

Bose, Christine and Minjeong Kim. Global Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives. Routledge, 2009.

"‘Forced’ into Unpaid Carework: International Students’ Wives in the United States.” In Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework, edited by Mary K. Zimmerman, Jacquelyn Litt, and Christine E. Bose. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.

"Consuming Orientalism: Images of Asian/American Women in Multicultural Advertising", Qualitative Sociology 28, 1 (2005): 67-91.

Awards:

CEUT (Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching) Interdisciplinary
Instructional Grant, Virginia Tech (2009)

Jerome Niles Faculty Research Award Small Grant, Virginia Tech (2009)

Dr. Kim was a 2007 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow in Women's Studies for her dissertation research, "Gendering Marriage Migration and Fragmented Citizenship Formation: 'Korean' Wives, Daughters-in-law, and Mothers from the Philippines."