Prof. Youn-mi Kim

Youn-mi Kim is an Associate Professor of Asian Art History at Ewha Womans University. Prior to joining the Ewha faculty, she worked as an Assistant Professor at Yale University (2012-16) and Assistant Professor at Ohio State University (2011-12). She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010. She is the editor of New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Silla to Koryo (Korea Institute, Harvard University Press, 2013); and a co-editor of Pokchang, the special issue of Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 28 (2019) and the Dhāraṇī and Mantra in Ritual, Art, and Text, a special issue of the International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 30, no. 2 (2020). A grantee of the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies 2018, she is currently completing her book manuscripts, entitled Visualizing the Invisible: Liao Pagodas, Cosmology, and Body, while working on her second book, Ritual and Agency: Visual Culture of Medieval Buddhism in North China.