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 Chosôn (1392-1910) monarchy in twentieth century Korea entitled The King Is Dead, and has forthcoming articles in the Journal of Asian Studies and Collective Memory in Northeast Asia (Palgrave-Macmillan). Her next project looks at cultural properties (munhwajae) as an attribute of Koreanness. Kim received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2004.