Hosu Kim

Faculty Fellow

Hosu Kim is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the College of Staten Island and a doctoral faculty of the Critical Social Psychology program at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Her current project, From the Ground of Missing: Ethics and Politics of Repair and State Violence in Korea examines multiple sites of the disappearance at the sites of the state and imperial violence in South Korea. By employing “missing” as a method, she interrogates epistemological limit of major truth-seeking efforts and explores alternative ethics and politics of repair. She is also author of Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea: Virtual Mothering, published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2016.




Participating Years


2021–2022

Agrarian Questions, Urban Connections, and Planetary Possibilities: Fire, Water, Earth and Air

The material conditions of agrarian life are deeply connected to the political, social, economic, environmental and cultural challenges of contemporary existence at a planetary scale. Agrarian spaces are central to geopolitical disputes over land and other natural resources, and rural social movements play a key role in defending biodiversity and food production.