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Nan Youngnan Kim-Paik, Assistant Professor

Office: Holton Hall 385
Phone: (414) 229-3675
E-mail: ynkp@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007

Research Interests:
Modern Korea, national division, postwar reconciliation, historical anthropology, family, gender, cultural and public history

Current Teaching Interests:
Korean War, politics of war memory in Northeast Asia, nationalism and transnationalism

Dissertation:
"Liminal Subjects, Liminal Nation: Reuniting Families and Mediating Reconciliation in Divided Korea"

Selected Publications and Presentations:
"Legacies of War and Korean Family Separation: Social and Historical Contexts of a Humanitarian Crisis." Guest lecture at the conference "The New Corea" (National Unification Advisory Council of the Republic of Korea, San Francisco, August 2006).

"Blood and Tears: Commemorating an Unfinished War in Divided Korea and the Reunions of North-South Korean Separated Families." Guest lecture at the symposium, Korean Dilemmas: The Political and Human Drama of Division and Reconciliation (Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, October 2003).

"Representing Motherhood, Reconciling the Nation: The Deployment of Gender During the Korean Separated Family Reunions." Paper delivered at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002.

"Remembering the April [1960] Revolution," Hanguk Yŏsŏng Shinhak (The Journal of Korean Feminist Theology). Summer, Vol. 42. Seoul, Korea, 2000.

"Otros Hallazgos: Trabajos de Theresa Hak Kyung Cha" ("Other Things Found: The Work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha"). Arte Internacional. Vol. 22, No. 5. Bogotá, Colombia, 1994.

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