Sunmin Kim

Sunmin Kim is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College and faculty associate with the Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality. With PhD from UC Berkeley, her research brings cultural sociology perspectives to race/immigration studies.

Her scholarship examines:

• Politics of racial knowledge production
• Historical construction of immigration categories
• Public opinion polling in democratic systems
• Quantification in social governance

Kim's publications analyze historical cases like the Dillingham Commission and contemporary issues in minority politics. Her book project 'The Unruly Facts of Race' investigates early 20th-century immigration debates. Current research includes projects on Japanese American loyalty during internment and assimilation patterns among immigrant children.