Kim Youn-mi
金延美/김연미

Field of Study

Years of Stay at HYI

Aug 2023 to May 2024

University Affiliation

Youn-mi Kim is Associate Professor of Asian Art History at Ewha Womans University. Prior to joining the Ewha faculty, she worked as Assistant Professor at Yale University (2012-16) and Assistant Professor at the 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 Architecture of Virtuality: Pagodas of the Liao Empire (907-1125).

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