Claire Jean Kim (born July 27, 1965) is an American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, U ...

. She received her A.B. from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate education, undergraduate college of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Scienc ...

and an M. Phil and Ph.D. from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. Her research interests are comparative race studies, human-animal studies, race and politics, and

social movements A social movement is either a loosely or carefully organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of ...

Selected publications

* ''Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City'' (Yale University Press, 2000) * ''Species/Race/Sex'' (a special issue of ''American Quarterly'', 65, 3, September 2013, co-edited with Carla Freccero) * ''Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species and Nature in a Multicultural Age'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) * ''Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World'' (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Grants and awards

American Political Science Association The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political scientists in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orleans, it publishes four ...

's Ralph Bunche Award for the Best Book on Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism * Best Book Award from the

Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics * Grant from the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university, research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Oakland, the system is co ...

Center for New Racial Studies * Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in

Princeton, New Jersey The Municipality of Princeton is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It was established on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey, Borough of Princeton and Pri ...

* Fellowship at the

Humanities Research Institute

References

American women political scientists American political scientists University of California, Irvine faculty Harvard College alumni Yale University alumni Critical race theorists Educators from Greater Los Angeles Living people 1965 births American women non-fiction writers {{US-polisci-bio-stub