Diana S. Kim
I am an Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
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My research and teaching crosses disciplinary boundaries between political science and history, focusing on Southeast and East Asia since the late nineteenth century.
I write about how states and economies work, usually through the lens of people and commodities that are seemingly marginal.
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A comparative and historical study of opium prohibition across Southeast Asia, which sheds light on the colonial legacies shaping the region’s drug-related problems today.
​WINNER of Giovanni Sartori Book Award from the American Political Science Association (2021); honorable mentions for Charles Taylor Award (APSA) and Allan Sharlin Award for outstanding book in social science history (SSHA).​​
"This is a book that will revise our understanding of one of the most significant but least understood episodes of imperial history."
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- Krishnan Kumar