Jung Min Kim

Kevin Kim is a doctoral student in the department, where he also teaches introductory courses on material culture. His research interests focus on cultural politics of food in the Korean American diaspora, as well as the discursive power of food in popular culture. In 2015, he was the recipient of a Park Break Fellowship in Cultural Resources Management from the George Wright Society and has also held curatorial internships from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Through his work with the University of Maryland’s Certificate Program in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture Studies, he is interested in researching innovative curatorial and exhibition strategies to connect marginalized communities with the museum world through food history. Kevin also serves as the editor for the department’s graduate student publication, Powerlines. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a BA with honors in History.