Bokyung Kim

Instructional Assistant Professor of Art History

Bokyung Kim

As an Instructional Assistant Professor, Dr. Kim teaches Intro Art History courses and several 300-level Asian Art courses.

Biography

Bokyung Kim is Instructional Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi. Her research involves Indonesia's Hindu-Buddhist art and architecture and the early interactions between Java and the mainland of Southeast Asia. She has published articles on the controversial two-dynasty theory of the Central Javanese period, the ancient Indonesian art, especially in the pedagogical context of teaching Southeast Asian art. She co-edited Teaching South and Southeast Asian Art: Multiethnicity, Cross-Racial Interaction, and Nationalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). She received her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian art history from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Education

Ph.D. Art History, University of California-Los Angeles (2016)