German Kim

History and Korean Studies, Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi
Mellon Global Fellow

Professor Kim is one of the world’s leading experts on ethnic nationalities in Central Asia.  He has written and edited a large number of books and published more than 150 papers, originally in his native Russian, but translated into Kazakh, English, Korean, German and Japanese.  Of those there are two books that are particularly noteworthy, on this history of the Korean Diaspora.  He is the head of the Department of Korean Studies at the Kazakh National University. He comes as the Mellon Global Fellow to spend a term in residence, teaching a course related to Koreans expelled to Kazakhstan under Stalin and participating in “Routes into the Diaspora,” a conference scheduled for November 6 and 7, 2006.

In residence, Fall 2006