Teaching and Mentoring

Kim is pictured at the front of the classroom, students are visible from their backs. She is standing beside the lecturn. Her dark brown and gray hair is pulled back. She is dressed in a black flowered dress and black cardigan. Above her is a slide that says, "Research Example 4," with a large black square to the right of the text.
Photo Credit: Bri Diaz, Senior Associate Director of Communications and Web Strategy, UConn CLAS

At the University of Connecticut, Kim’s undergraduate teaching is at UConn Hartford. Her courses include: Methods of Social Research, Sociology of Carework, Sociology of Families, Sociology of Gender, and Sociology of Sexualities. Kim’s graduate teaching and mentoring are at UConn Storrs. She has taught a graduate course on the sociology of gender and served on 14 Dissertation Committees, 7 Masters Thesis Committees, and 27 Area Exam Committees.

This is a closer image of Kim standing behind the lecturn. She is gesturing with her hands, fingers extended. Three students are visible in the foreground. They are not facing the carmera, they are facing Kim.
Photo Credit: Bri Diaz, Senior Associate Director of Communications and Web Strategy, UConn CLAS

Kim was the inaugral recipient of the University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010) and winner of the Hartford Matters Teaching Grant Competition for her, “Sociology of Carework” course submission to fund the study of Hartford community care organizations’ innovations in care (2020).