Claire Jean Kim

Claire Jean Kim is Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her work focuses on race, multiculturalism, social justice movements, and intersectionality in the U.S. She received her B.A. in Government from Harvard College and her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University, and has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Ms. Kim is the author of Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City (Yale University Press, 2000), which was the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Ralph Bunche Award in 2001 for the best book on cultural and ethnic pluralism. Her articles have appeared in Amerasia Journal, The Du Bois Review, Polity, Political Science Quarterly, and Politics & Society, among other scholarly journals.