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Past Member

Diana Kim

Hans Kohn Member

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of study

Politics
From
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Diana Kim’s research addresses modern state formation, colonialism, and the political construction of vices and vulnerability. At IAS, she will be writing a book on untouchability, which explores the making of a transnational world of untouchable groups in East, Southeast, and South Asia over the past two hundred years, and its hidden contours today.

Visits

Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees

University of Chicago
Ph.D.
2013

Honors

2021
Co-Winner, Giovanni Sartori Book Award, American Political Science Association
2020
Silvers Grant, New York Review of Books/Robert B. Silvers Foundation

Appointments

Georgetown University
2016
Assistant Professor
Harvard University
2013–2016
Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics