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Rebecca Y. Kim
Associate Professor of Sociology

Division: Social Science Division
Office: Appleby Center (APC) 219
Phone: (310) 506-7481
Fax: (310) 506-7271
E-mail: rebecca.y.kim@pepperdine.edu

  • Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
  • M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998
  • B.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996
Courses:
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Research Methods
  • Social Theory
  • Social Stratification
  • Race and Ethnic Relations
Key Awards/Affiliations:
  • Included in the ninth edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2005.
  • Fichter Research Award, Association for the Sociology of Religion. 2005-2006.
  • Changing Face of American Evangelicals, Research Grant, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College. 2005-2006.
  • Seaver Fellow, Social Science Division, Pepperdine University. 2004-2006.
  • Seaver Research Council, Research Grant, Pepperdine University. 2004-2006.
  • Seaver Research Council, Release Time Award, Pepeprdine University. 2004-2006.
  • Dissertation Fellowship Award, UCLA. 2002-2003., 2002
  • Winner of the 2001 Best Student Paper Award, "Assimilation, Ethnicity, and Religion: Korean American Campus Evangelicals' Ethnic Religious Participation," the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association.
  • The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Research Award, Division of Social Sciences, Alfred University. 2001-2002., 2001
  • Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship Award, The Louisville Institute, Kentucky. 2001., 2001
  • LeRoy Neiman Center Graduate Fellowship Award, LeRoy Neiman Center for the Study of American Society and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles. 2000.
  • Graduate Fellowship, Institute of American Cultures and the Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. 2000.
  • Graduate Fellowship Award, Project 88, University of California Los Angeles. 1996-1999.
  • Member of: American Sociological Association, Asian and Pacific Americans and Religion Research Initiative, Association for Asian American Studies, Association for Sociology and Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
  • Council member of: Asia/Asian American Section of the ASA 2007-2010
  • Seaver Research Council, Dean's Research Grant, 2006-2007.
Academic Interests:
  • Immigrant Adaptation (immigrant/emigrant/transnational communities; ethnic organizations; ethnic religious organizations)
  • Immigration (international migration; Korean Diaspora; Southeast Asian refugee flows)
  • Race and Ethnic Relations (interethnic relations; inter and intra group differences with an emphasis on Asian Americans)
  • Sociology of Religion (immigrant churches; immigrants and their children's religiosity; ethnic and multiethnic churches; campus evangelicalism)
  • The New Second Generation (the education of immigrant and refugee children; intergenerational relations; Asian Americans' religious participation; Korean American Christians)
Selected Works:
  • God's New Whiz Kids? Second-generation Korean American Evangelicals on Campus. New York: New York University Press (2006).
  • Paradox of Ethnicisation and Assimilation: The Development of Ethnic Organisations in the Chinese Immigrant Community in the United States, in Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Evelyn Hu-Dehart eds., Voluntary Associations in the Chinese Diaspora. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. (with Min Zhou, 2006).
  • Second-Generation Korean American Evangelicals: "Ethnic, Multiethnic, or White Campus Ministries?" Sociology of Religion. 65 (1): 19-34. (2004)
  • Asian American College Campus Evangelicals: Constructing and Negotiating Ethnic and Religious Boundaries, in Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang, eds., Asian American Religion: Borders and Boundaries. New York: New York University Press. (2004)
  • Made in the U.S.A.: Second-Generation Korean American Campus Evangelicals, in Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou, eds., Asian American Youth Culture. New York: Routledge Press. (2004)
  • A Tale of Two Metropolises: New Immigrant Chinese Communities in New York and Los Angeles, In David Halle, ed. Los Angeles and New York in the New Millennium. Chicago: Univesity of Chicago Press (with Min Zhou), 2003., 2003
  • "Ethnic Differences in Academic Achievement Between Vietnamese and Cambodian Children." Sociological Quarterly (Spring 2002): 213-235.
  • Transnationalism and American Exports in an English-Speaking World. International Migration Review 36 (2002): 702-725 with Ivan Light and Min Zhou.
  • Globalization Effects on Employment in Southern California, 1970-1990, in Malcolm Cross and Robert Moore, eds., Globalization and the New City. (New York: Palgrave Press, 2002) with Ivan Light and Connie Hum.
  • Rebuilding Spiritual Lives in the New Land: Religious Practices among Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States, pp 37-70 in Jung Ha Kim and Pyong Gap Min's, eds., Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities. (Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2002) with Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston.
  • New Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States: Beyond Chinatowns and National Boundaries. World Economic Review (in Chinese with Min Zhou) 2001.
  • Formation, Consolidation, and Diversification of the Ethnic Elite: The Case of the Chinese Immigrant Community in the United States. Journal of International Migration and Integration 2 (2001): 227-247 with Min Zhou.
  • Immigrant Incorporation in the Garment Industry of Los Angeles, International Migration Review 33 (1999): 5-25 with Ivan Light and Richard Bernard.
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