DIANA S. KIM 김영화

KFAS Fellowship 28th Term (2005)

PhD, Political Science, University of Chicago, 2013

Thesis: Empire's Penal Turn: The Rise of Opium Prohibition in Mainland Southeast Asia, 1870-1935

Work & Experiences 

• Postdoctoral Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University (2013-2016)
• Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (2016-present)

Diana S. Kim is a political science scholar whose research focuses on the politics and history of markets in Southeast Asia and East Asia in general. In particular, she is interested in the regulation of vice, illicit economies, theories of crime and disorder, formation of nation-states, and legacies of empire and colonialism. Since completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, Diana S. Kim joined the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. Her first book, Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia was published by Princeton University Press in 2020, and received the 2021 Giovanni Sartori Book Award. Diana Kim is also the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Achievement in Research Award from Georgetown University.