Veda Hyunjin Kim

Veda Hyunjin Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio Wesleyan University. He specializes in sociology and criminology, focusing on collective emancipation through critical social inquiry.

• Education
  • Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • M.A., University of Chicago
  • M.P.P., Seoul National University

His research centers on crimes of the powerful, particularly examining the formation of the criminal state in modern Korea through a postcolonial lens. He critiques transitional justice programs and explores decolonial survivor narratives.

Kim has published in journals such as the British Journal of Sociology, Critical Sociology, and the Journal of Genocide Research, often guest-editing special issues on related themes.