Myung Jung Kim
Fall drop-in hours
- Thursday, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Myung Jung Kim is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. She specializes in International Relations, with particular focus on armed conflict and international law. Her current book project examines how the enforcement of international criminal law reshapes civil war dynamics by altering rebel leaders’ traditional strategies for evading accountability—such as amnesty, exile, and external sponsorship.
Kim’s broader research interests include international organizations, (internationalized) civil wars, leader accountability, transitional justice, and transborder justice.
Before joining the faculty at the University of Iowa, she was a United States Institute of Peace–Minerva Peace and Security Scholar (2023–2024), a Schroeder Fellow at the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research (2024), and a research associate at the Korea Institute for National Unification (2015–2017). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois, an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a BA in Economics from Purdue University.
