Dr. Jaeyoon Kim has been at PLNU since 2005. He teaches courses in world civilizations; Asian-American history; and modern Japan, Korea, and China. Kim earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Oregon and has served as a visiting scholar at Beijing University in the People's Republic of China.
Education
- Ph.D., History, University of Oregon
- M.A., History, San Diego State University
- B.A. History, Chonnam National University
Courses Taught
- World Civilizations I – HIS 110
- World Civilizations II – HIS 111
- Modern China Through Film – HIS 368
- Early East Asia – HIS 357
- Modern Japan and Korea – HIS 365
- China In Revolution – HIS 369
- Asian-American History – HIS 435
- Senior Seminar – HIS 470
- America In East Asia – HIS 436
Experience in Field
- Areas of interest: peasant rebellions and the role they played in the formation of ethnic identities in Southern China in the 19th and 20th centuries, the immigration history of Chinese-Korean (hanhua), and the formation of ethnic identity of Chinese-Korean in 20th century
- Point Loma Nazarene University (San Diego, CA), Professor, 2005 – present
- Cuyamaca College (El Cajon, CA), Instructor, 2003-2005
- Beijing University (Beijing, People's Republic of China), Visiting Scholar, 2001 – 2002
- University of Oregon (Eugene, OR), Graduate Teaching Fellow, 1998 – 2001
Professional and Community Involvement
- Member, Association for Asian Studies
- Member, The World History Association
- Member, Conference on Faith and History
- Member, Association for Preserving Historical Accuracy of Foreign Invasions in China
- AWANA Commander, San Diego Calvary Korean Church
Awards and Honors
- RASP Grant, PLNU
- Robert Lang Dissertation Fellowship, University of Oregon
- General University Scholarship, University of Oregon
- CAPS Fellowship, University of Oregon
- Paul Dull Memorial Scholarship, University of Oregon
- PHI BETA DELTA Award, San Diego State University
Dissertations, Presentations, and Publications
- Essentials, Links, And Influence: Timeless Readings From World Civilizations To 1500 (Published by Cognella Academic Publishing, 2015)
- “My Life In Korea,” (Published in the Global Vantage, Issue 7, Autumn 2013)
- “Hwagyo and Chinese-Korean Diaspora in America,” (Presented at the 60th Anniversary of Chonnam National University History Department Meeting)
- Ethnicity, Local Conflicts and the Qing State: The Red Turban Rebellions and the Subethnic Conflicts in the Wuyi Region of Nineteenth Century South China (Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, April 30, 2010)
- “The Heaven and Earth Society and the Red Turban Rebellion in Late Qing China,” (Published in the Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2009)
- “Crossroads of the World: Global Religious Exchange in China and India,” (Responding Paper presented at 2008 Conference on Faith and History, Sep. 18-20, 2008, Bluffton University, Ohio)
- “The Rebels, Mandarins, Missionaries and the Local Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century South China,” (Presented at 2006 Conference on Faith and History, Sep. 22, 2006, Oklahoma Baptist University)
- “Hakka-Punti Conflicts in the Wuyi Region of Guangdong Province,” (Presented at the 2005 Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies)
- “Local Conflict and Ethnic Consciousness in the Pearl River Delta of South China,” (Presented at the 3 rd Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities-Chaired on Ethnic Studies Session, 2005)
- “The Tiandihui Rebellion of the Pearl River Delta in Nineteenth-Century China,” (Presented at the 2004 Southwest Conference on Asian Studies)
- “Mimana Problem in Early Korea and Japan,” (Published in the Chronicle of Chonnam, South Korea, 1991)
