Hanna Kim is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership with a concentration in Global Studies in Education (GSE). Her research interests lie in a sense of belonging and identity development among Asian international graduate students at US universities as well as Asian American history education. She has worked for the College of Education’s International Program, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS), as well as the Global Leaders Program in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She currently serves as a research assistant for the Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) project. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D. program, she worked for World Vision Korea (NGO) as a broadcast filing coordinator and studied for her master's in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Mississippi. She hopes to contribute to creating a welcoming climate in academic communities where all students feel they belong to the department and university.
Advisor: Dr. Yoon Pak
Anticipated Graduation: 2026
Academic Background:
Ph.D. Student, Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Concentration: Global Studies in Education
M.A., Modern Languages with a concentration on Applied Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, University of Mississippi
B.A., International Cultural Studies with Education in Early Childhood Education, Soonchunhang University
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hanna-kim-487ba81b0
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