Lian Kim
Ph.D. Student
2020 Cohort
lkim@unm.edu
Lyounghee (Lian) Kim is a Ph.D. candidate and an instructor for the Department of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico. She studies intersections of communication, culture, and media, with a focus on critical cultural perspectives on identity (race, gender, and sexuality), space/place, power, health, and globalization. Her tentative dissertation project is about media representations and everyday experiences of diasporic Asian Americans, especially digital storytelling of North Korean refugees who reside in the US.
Lian earned a BA (Dean's list) from Kyonggi University in Seoul, South Korea, where she double majored in Journalism and in Visual Media & Art. She received an MA in Communication from West Texas A&M University. Before moving to the United States, she worked on TV documentaries at the Korean Educational Broadcasting System. During and after pursuing a master's degree, she worked at a media production company in the United States with Korean and American professionals.
She is currently serving as a student representative for Korean American Communication Association (2023-2025) and a faculty liaison for CommGrads (2023-2024).
Outside academia, Lian loves running, hiking, yoga, reading, writing, and walking her dog. She is a big fan of FC Barcelona.
