Helen Kim

Helen K. Kim currently serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Whitman College. Prior to her appointment, Helen served as Interim Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion from 2018-2019 and Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2019-2022. Helen's scholarship focuses on race and American Judaism in the contemporary era. Along with co-author, Noah Leavitt, she published JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews in 2016 with University of Nebraska Press. Her scholarship has been profiled in the New York Times, NPR, and Huffington Post.