User:Mikyoung Kim

Mikyoung Kim, Associate Professor at Hiroshima City University-Hiroshima Peace Institute, has been teaching and researching a wide range of memory, peace, and human rights related topics with a particular focus on the Korean peninsula and Japan. She has earned Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Georgia, USA, and MAs in International Relations, Gender Studies and Peace Studies from the USA and Korea. She has taught at Portland State University as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2004-5), and has authored many referred articles and book chapters on Japanese pacifism, Asian memory and reconciliation, and human rights in East Asia and North Korea. She is the co-editor of Northeast Asia's Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory (2010, Palgrave Macmillan, with Barry Schwartz), and is the author of Securitization of Human Rights: North Korean Refugees in East Asia　(2012, Praeger). She has edited a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Memory Studies (Vol. 6, No. 3, 2013, Sage), and is the co-editor of North Korea Review (SSCI Journal, McFarland).