Dr. Young C. Kim (Curriculum Vita)
Assistant Professor of Political Science

SB 60
(812) 488-2688
yk28@evansville.edu
 

Education:
Ph.D. Texas Tech University, 2003
   (Comparative Politics)
B.A. & M.A. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea
   (Political Science and Diplomacy)                                  

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Biography:
Dr. Kim teaches Comparative Politics courses such as World Politics (Intro to comparative Politics), Asian Politics, Politics of the Middle East, Latin American Politics, and Senior Seminar in Political Science at University of Evansville. He has also taught Intro to International Relations, Research Methods in Political Science, American National Government, World Cultures, Measurement and Statistics in Public Services, and Quantitative Skills for Leadership considering the need of the department and university. His areas of specialization include contemporary Asian, Middle East and Latin American politics, mass political behavior, and democratization. He has presented more than two dozen research papers at the various academic conferences. His writings have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, The Korean Journal of Area Studies, Journal of East and West Studies, Comparative Democratic Studies, Indiana Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Third World Studies. Dr. Kim is the recipient of the 2008 Academic Fellowship on Terrorism funded by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). The FDD fellowship ran in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 9-20, 2008. Dr. Kim not only attended classroom lectures by academics, diplomats, military, intelligence officials, and politicians from Israel, Jordan, India, and the United States, but also visited to Prime Minister’s office, military bases, border zones (West Bank), terrorists prison authority, and other security installations to learn the practical side of deterring terrorist attacks. Dr. Kim is also the recipient of the 2009 ASIANetwork Freeman Research Grant. With three UE students, he conducts a field research in South Korea to explore “South Korean college students’ perception of the United States. They spend three weeks surveying university students throughout South Korea on May 10-31, 2009.