Christine Kim is an assistant professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, where she teaches courses on modern Korean and East Asian history. Her research focuses on the relationship between culture and politics in the formation of national identity. She is presently completing a manuscript about the significance of the Choson (1392-1910) monarchy in twentieth century Korea entitled The King Is Dead, and has published articles in the Journal of Asian Studies and Collective Memory in Northeast Asia (Palgrave-Macmillan). Her next project looks at the history of cultural properties (munhwajae) as an attribute of Korean identity in the twentieth century.