Nami Kim, Ph.D. has been a Faculty Member Since 2004 and is a Professor for Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Th.D., Harvard University, The Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
M.Div., Emory University, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, GA | magna cum laude
M.A., B.A., Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea
REL 111 – Introduction to the Study of Religion
REL 112 – Women and Religion
REL 270 – Introduction to Eastern Religious Traditions
REL 278 – Women in Eastern Religious Traditions
REL 285 – Religion, Women, and Violence in Global Perspective
REL 318 – Religion and Sexuality: A Survey
REL 370 – Women and Religious Fundamentalism
REL 380 – Theory and Methods in Religious Studies
REL 440 - Women and Religious Fundamentalism,
REL 480 – Senior Project
REL/PHI 395/6 – Colloquium
IBQC- First-Year Colloquia – Religion and Sexuality
FYE – First-Year Experience Seminar
Dr. Kim’s research interests meet at the intersections of feminist theory, Asian and Asian Pacific North American religious/theological studies, transnational studies, and world Christianity.
Books
Feminist Praxis Against U.S. Militarism, co-edited with Wonhee Anne Joh. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.
The Gendered Politics of the Korean Protestant Right: Hegemonic Masculinity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Critical Theology against U.S. Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization, co-edited with Wonhee Anne Joh. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Co-edited Journal
Special issue of the "Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion" 25, no. 1 (Spring 2009)
Articles and Book Chapters
“When the Minjung Events Erupt: Protests from Korea to Hong Kong.” In "The Hong Kong Protests and Political Theology." Ed. Kwok Pui Lan and Francis Ching-Wah Yip. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
“Self-Reflexivity, Knowledge Production, and Cross-Racial Solidarity.” In Embodying Knowledge: Asian and Asian American Women’s Contributions to Theology and Religion, edited by Kwok Pui Lan. Palgrave Macmillan, (Forthcoming).
“Enemies of the Nation, Heretics of the Church”: Conscientious Rejection of State Authority." In Resistance to Empire and Militarization, edited by Jude Lal Fernando, ed. Equinox Sheffield, (Forthcoming).
“Climate Change and U.S. Militarized Responses in Asia and the Pacific.” In Transpacific Political Theology. Ed. Kwok Pui-lan. Baylor University, forthcoming.
“The Confines of ‘Antiracism’ Work in the Intersectional Realities of ‘Anti-Asian’ Violence.” In Embodying Antiracist Christianity: Asian American Theological Resources for Just Racial Relations. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023.
“Reorienting Orientalism in Asian/American Theology: ‘Religion’, Christian Secularism, and Islamophobia.” In Theologies of the Multitudes for the Multitudes: The Legacy of Kwok Pui-lan. Ed. Rita Nakashima Brock and Tat-siong Benny Liew. Claremont Pression, 2021.
“Several ‘Women of Color’ Walked Out of the Room That Afternoon in Solidarity: Multiple Logics of White Supremacy.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 1 (Spring 2022)
Grants
“Antiracist Work in Asian American Christian Churches.” Project Grant for Researchers (a team member), Louisville Institute, 2021-2022.
"Sexual Violence in Asian American Ethnoreligious Communities” (co-leader), The Religion and Sexual Abuse Project and the Henry Luce Foundation, University of California-Riverside, 2020-2024.