Claudius Kim

Dr. Claudius (Kyung Yeob) Kim is a Soch’on Post-Doctoral Scholar at Center for Korean Studies. He received a Ph.D. in History (Modern Korea and Modern China) from Stanford University in 2025 and recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin in 2025–26. Drawing on multilingual archives from China, Korea, Japan, and the U.S., his research focuses on the transregional history of war, revolution, and migration in twentieth-century East Asia. His current book project, Revolution on the Move: Korean Migrants and Sino-Korean Relations in Trans-War East Asia, 1932–58, examines the intertwined histories of Chinese and Korean revolutions through the transnational lens of Korean diaspora over the course of WWII, the Chinese Civil War, and the Korean War. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Global China Studies from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.