Eleana Kim

Eleana Kim is a sociocultural anthropologist with expertise in kinship, migration, war, and militarized ecologies. She is Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at University of California Irvine, and the current president of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. She is the author of Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ (Duke University Press 2022), Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (Duke University Press 2010), and co-editor with David Fedman and Albert Park of Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments (Cornell University Press 2023).