Patricia Kim

Patricia Eunji Kim is a PhD Candidate in the History of Art and GSWS certificate student, whose research focuses on the relationship between gender and power across cultures. Her dissertation, "Engendering Power: Dynastic Women and Visual Culture in the Hellenistic World (4th-1st c BCE)," is the first full-length study of female bodies and women in late Classical and Hellenistic dynastic and royal art. Her work offers fresh perspectives on gendered politics and differences through a more capacious analysis of the female body in Greek art, using methods derived from art history and archaeology, while engaging with ideas from feminist/black feminist, critical race, and ecological discourses. She has excavated throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, and has contributed to curatorial projects, given talks, and written publications on issues in the environmental humanities, digital humanities, and cultural heritage. Her various projects have received support from the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, the Kolb Society, and the National Geographic Society.