Monica Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM M |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-3838-0364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Restorative Posters
Restorative Posters: Representing Justice Visually is an initiative by Project NIA, a Chicago-based organization founded and directed by Mariame Kaba. The project features a series of downloadable posters mostly created by Chicago-based artists and focuses on the potential of art to generate questions and foster dialogue on restorative and transformative justice
Worlds without Police
This introduction highlights the historically oriented scholarship and politically engaged writing that examines places and times without police, which appear in this issue. Modern approaches to governance generally take the presence of police as necessary to maintaining social peace, even though police have proven to fail at fostering public safety and in fact tend to escalate harm and violence. Following the lead of activists working to dismant…
The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History
The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History
Traditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula. But this book presents an entirely new narrative, shifting the perspective from the boundaries of the battlefield to inside the interrogation room. The book demonstrates how the Korean War evolved from a fight over territory to one over human interiority and t…
The Other Panmunjom: Mutiny or Revolution on Koje Island
On May 7, 1952-in a twist of events that journalist Murray Schumach of the New York Times would later describe as "the strangest episode of the Korean War"-a group of Korean Communist prisoners of war "kidnapped" US camp commander Brigadier General Francis Dodd of the Koje-do POW camp. Located just off the southern coast of South Korea, the island contained the largest US-controlled camp during the Korean War.POW Joo Tek Woon, who was the spokesm…
The Intelligence of Fools: Reading the US Military Archive of the Korean War
This article examines the struggle over sovereignty on the Korean peninsula from the US occupation through the Korean War not over the usual stakes of geopolitical territory but, rather, over the politics of recognition surrounding the capacity of the individual postcolonial subject. By beginning with a set of archives that has been foundational for much of the historiography around the Korean War—the documents of US military intelligence—this es…
Empire’s Babel: US Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War
Research Article| April 01 2013 Empire’s Babel: US Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War Monica Kim Monica Kim Monica Kim is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Albany, State University of New York. She is also currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. She is working on a book manuscript titled, Humanity Interrogated: The Wars over War in the Interrogation Ro…
Empire’s Babel: US Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War
Research Article| April 01 2013 Empire’s Babel: US Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War Monica Kim Monica Kim Monica Kim is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Albany, State University of New York. She is also currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. She is working on a book manuscript titled, Humanity Interrogated: The Wars over War in the Interrogation Ro…
Worlds without Police
This introduction highlights the historically oriented scholarship and politically engaged writing that examines places and times without police, which appear in this issue. Modern approaches to governance generally take the presence of police as necessary to maintaining social peace, even though police have proven to fail at fostering public safety and in fact tend to escalate harm and violence. Following the lead of activists working to dismant…
Empire’s Babel: US Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War
Research Article| April 01 2013 Empire’s Babel: US Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War Monica Kim Monica Kim Monica Kim is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Albany, State University of New York. She is also currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. She is working on a book manuscript titled, Humanity Interrogated: The Wars over War in the Interrogation Ro…
The Intelligence of Fools: Reading the US Military Archive of the Korean War
This article examines the struggle over sovereignty on the Korean peninsula from the US occupation through the Korean War not over the usual stakes of geopolitical territory but, rather, over the politics of recognition surrounding the capacity of the individual postcolonial subject. By beginning with a set of archives that has been foundational for much of the historiography around the Korean War—the documents of US military intelligence—this es…
The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History
The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History
Traditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula. But this book presents an entirely new narrative, shifting the perspective from the boundaries of the battlefield to inside the interrogation room. The book demonstrates how the Korean War evolved from a fight over territory to one over human interiority and t…
The Other Panmunjom: Mutiny or Revolution on Koje Island
On May 7, 1952-in a twist of events that journalist Murray Schumach of the New York Times would later describe as "the strangest episode of the Korean War"-a group of Korean Communist prisoners of war "kidnapped" US camp commander Brigadier General Francis Dodd of the Koje-do POW camp. Located just off the southern coast of South Korea, the island contained the largest US-controlled camp during the Korean War.POW Joo Tek Woon, who was the spokesm…
Restorative Posters
Restorative Posters: Representing Justice Visually is an initiative by Project NIA, a Chicago-based organization founded and directed by Mariame Kaba. The project features a series of downloadable posters mostly created by Chicago-based artists and focuses on the potential of art to generate questions and foster dialogue on restorative and transformative justice
Worlds without Police
This introduction highlights the historically oriented scholarship and politically engaged writing that examines places and times without police, which appear in this issue. Modern approaches to governance generally take the presence of police as necessary to maintaining social peace, even though police have proven to fail at fostering public safety and in fact tend to escalate harm and violence. Following the lead of activists working to dismant…
History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Interrogation (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · 1950-1953 (2 works)