Dr.ⁱⁿ Sophie-Jung Kim

Marie-Curie Fellow

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E-Mail: sophie-jung.kim@univie.ac.at

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Sophie-Jung Kim specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century global history of Asia, with a focus on the transnational history of India. Her approach to global history centers on the processes of social differentiation that accompany globalization and explores the intersection of gender, race, and space. Her first monograph Spatializing Society (currently under review), uncovers gendered and spatialized effects of Indo-US entanglement by unpicking the transnational making of a “great man.” Her research on Indo-US history, international events, and global publics has been published in the Journal of World History, American Historical Review, and Religion among other publications.

In 2024, Sophie-Jung joined the University of Vienna as a Marie-Curie Fellow to develop her second book project, which offers a bottom-up counterpart to transimperial history. Her current Marie-Curie project, “Intercolonial Public,” surveys anticolonial nonviolent protests that emerged in India and Korea, investigating how similar methods of anticolonialism informed anticolonial thought across colonies of different empires.

Sophie-Jung holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Oxford, and a BA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught both MA and BA courses in global history, world history, and modern South Asian history at Freie Universität Berlin, King’s College London, and University of Cambridge.

Key Research Topics

• Space and spatial theory
• Social history of ideas
• Memory politics
• Gender, race, and religion