Curriculum Vitae

Download full CV (PDF)

Employment

Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology

The Higher Education, Race, and the Economy (HERE) Lab, University of California, Merced · October 2023–present

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology, Harvard University

November 2023 · Committee: Frank Dobbin (chair), Alexandra Killewald, Peter V. Marsden

M.A. in Sociology, Harvard University

May 2018

B.A. in Sociology, Political Science, and Foreign Affairs, Yonsei University

February 2007

Publications

• Kim, Kwan Woo and Phillipa Chong. 2023. “Writing By Women or For Women? Either Way, You’re Less Likely to Be Reviewed.” Poetics 96:101737.
• Kim, Kwan Woo, Alexandra Kalev, Frank Dobbin, and Gal Deutsch. 2021. “Crisis and Uncertainty: Did the Great Recession Reduce the Diversity of New Faculty?” Sociological Science 8:308–24. Featured in Harvard Gazette, Inside Higher Ed, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Higher Education Today.

Revise & Resubmit / Invited Manuscript

• Gonsalves, Leroy, Kwan Woo Kim, Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev, and Gal Deutsch. “Challenging the Specter of Motherhood in Academia: Universalistic Tenure Clock Extensions and Faculty Diversity.” Revise and Resubmit, American Journal of Sociology.
• Kim, Kwan Woo and Laura Hamilton. “Online Degrees and Future Income: Do College Experiences Matter?” Revise and Resubmit, Sociology of Education.
• Kim, Kwan Woo. “Competition or Credentialism? The Occupational Presence of Immigrants and European Attitudes Toward Welfare and Immigration.” Revise and Resubmit, Socio-Economic Review.
• Dessauer, Julia and Kwan Woo Kim (equal authorship). “Short Order: Restructuring Hollywood’s Writers’ Rooms in the Age of Streaming.” Invited for the Poetics Special Issue on Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts.

Papers Under Review

• Kim, Kwan Woo. “Selective Inclusion: Resource Dependence and the Uneven Diversification of the U.S. Professoriate, 1993–2019.” Under review, Social Forces.

Research Interests

Organizational Inequality · Stratification · Higher Education · Creative Industries · Attitudes · Quantitative Methods

Honors & Awards

Research

• Finalist, Best Student Paper, Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division, Academy of Management — 2023
• Best Paper on Environmental and Social Practices, Academy of Management — 2022

Teaching & Service

• ABL Connect Teaching Innovator Prize, Harvard University — 2019
• Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University — 2018, 2021
• Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Reviewing Award, Academy of Management — 2023

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University (Fall 2015–Spring 2022) — graduate courses in social network methods and intermediate quantitative research methods; undergraduate courses in the sociology of organizations, philanthropy and nonprofit organizations, humanitarian activism and civil society, and social movements.

Grant Writing

Contributed to successful proposals: Spencer Foundation (#202600007), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (G-2025-25232), and Lumina Foundation (#2504-1117794). PI: Laura Hamilton.

Academic Service

• Reviewer, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and Poetics — 2021–present
• Undergraduate thesis advisor, Harvard University — 2018–19
• Student organizer, Economic Sociology Seminar, Harvard University — 2015–17
• Graduate admissions committee, Department of Sociology, Harvard University — 2015

For the full publication list, working papers, conference presentations, and dissertation abstract, see the complete CV or the Research pages.