Junyoung Verónica Kim

Junyoung Verónica Kim is a visiting scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University.  Both transregional and interdisciplinary in scope, her field of research includes Hemispheric Asian American Studies, East Asian and Latin American literature and media, cultural studies, critical race and gender studies, and immigration history. She has published articles on Korean immigration in Argentina, the Global South project, Transpacific Studies, Asian-Latin American literature, and Latin American involvement during the Korean War.  She is on the editorial board for the book series “Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia” for Palgrave Macmillian, and “Between Asias and Americas” for University of Pittsburgh Press, and serves on the executive committees of numerous scholarly organizations. Additionally, she is an associate member of the Korea Policy Institute. She is also a core member of the “Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective,” a public education initiative, which provides resources and tools --including a public syllabus-- with the goal of decolonizing and demilitarizing the Korean peninsula. Her book in progress, "Cacophonous Intimacies: Reorienting Diaspora and Race in Asia-Latin America", explores the cultural and migratory flows between Latin America and Asia by looking at literature, cinema, and Asian immigration history in Latin America. Currently, she has also started working on a new project tentatively titled "Nuclear Diaspora: Asian-Latin American Genealogies, the Black Pacific, and the Korean War" that undertakes an exploration of transpacific relations of labor, militarization, racialization, and solidarity that arise during the Korean War.