This year, The B.A. Jones Lecture on Race & Society (SOAN), The R. Kragalott Lecture on Human Rights, Genocide & Mass Atrocity (HIST), and The B.F. Marsh Lecture on Public Affairs (PG) are collaborating to present a lecture and panel discussion.
On Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, at 5 p.m. in Merrick Hall 301, the departments will host the lecture, “Refusing Death: Immigrant Women of Color on Environmental Racism and Classism” delivered by Nadia Kim, Ph.D. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Nadia Kim, professor of Sociology, holds the George Sumey Jr. Professorship in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on U.S. race and citizenship injustices concerning Korean/Asian Americans, South Koreans, and Latinx immigrants, and on fights against environmental racism/classism (esp. by women), and on comparative racialization of Latinxs and Asian and Black Americans. Throughout her work, Kim’s approach centers (neo)imperialism, transnationality, and intersectionality.
For her book, Refusing Death (NYU, 2021), Kim received the 2023 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award (Society for the Study of Social Problems), the 2023 Distinguished Scholarship Award (The Pacific Sociological Association), the 2023 Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences Book Award (Association of Asian American Studies) and an Honorable Mention, Best Publication Award (American Sociological Association). Kim is also the author of the award-winning book, Imperial Citizens (SUP, 2008), and has numerous award-winning journal articles.
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Contact: Deb Lovell at history@owu.edu