Jaymelee J. Kim

Jaymelee J. Kim 

Curriculum Vitae 

Department of Social, Behavioral, and Justice Sciences at the University of Findlay 

1000 North Main Street, Findlay, OH 45840 

e-mail: jaymelee.kim@gmail.com ~ tel: (+01) 419.434.5590 

www.jaymeleekim.com 

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

Anthropology of Forensics, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Political & Legal Anthropology, 

Political Violence, Settler Colonialism, Structural Violence, Transitional Justice 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 

2014-Present Assistant Professor, University of Findlay, Findlay, OH 

2011 Adjunct Lecturer, Lincoln Memorial University, Alcoa, TN 

EDUCATION 

2014 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

Advisors: Tricia Redeker Hepner, Dawnie Wolfe Steadman 

Dissertation: They Made Us Unrecognizable to Each Other: Human Rights, Truth, and 

Reconciliation in Canada (Field Site: British Columbia, CAN) 

Graduate Certificate: Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights 

Graduate Certificate: Linguistics 

2008 M.A. (Forensic) Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

2006 B.S. Packaging Science (Materials Science), Rochester Institute of Technology 

GRANTS 

In Progress 

2015 Senior Research Proposal, National Science Foundation. Co-PIs: Tricia Redeker 

Hepner, Julia Hanebrink, and Dawnie Wolfe Steadman. 

Awarded 

2013-Present Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation. Grant ID: 

132160. $13,406 

2015 Haines-Morris Grant, University of Tennessee. Co-PIs: Tricia Redeker Hepner, Eliza 

Guyol-Meinrath, Tyler Howe, Vivian Choi. $3,000 

2014-2015 Professional Development Award, University of Findlay. $1,600 

2013-2014 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation. Grant ID: 

8649. $20,000 

2012 W.K. McClure Scholarship for the Study of World Affairs, University of Tennessee 

Center for International Education. $4,000 

2007 William M. Bass Endowment Award, UT Forensic Anthropology Center. $2,500 

PUBLICATIONS 

In Progress 

2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. Forensic Human Rights Anthropology and Social Theory. Target 

Journal: American Anthropologist. 

Kim 1 of 5

2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. The Violence of Reconciliation. Target Journal: International 

Journal of Transitional Justice. 

2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. and Amanda J. Reinke. The Expansion of Anthropology and the 

Commodity of Human Rights. Target Journal: Political and Legal Anthropology 

Published 

2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. Review of Kimberly Theidon Intimate Enemies: Violence and 

Reconciliation in Peru. Allegra Lab: Anthropology, Law, Art & World, 

(allegralaboratory.net) 

2014 Kim, Jaymelee J. "They Made Us Unrecognizable to Each Other: Human Rights, 

Truth, and Reconciliation in Canada." PhD diss., University of Tennessee. 

http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3144 

2013 Kim, Jaymelee J. Review of Arthur J. Ray Telling it to the Judge: Taking Native 

History to Court. Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 33(2):185-186. 

2013 Kim, Jaymelee J. and Amanda J. Reinke. The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its 

Parts: Anthropology of Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights. Anthropology 

News. 

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS 

Conference Papers 

2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. The Other Sides of Transitional Justice in Canada: 

Operationalization, Corruption, & Unanticipated Outcomes. 114th Annual Meeting 

of the American Anthropological Association, November 18-22, Denver, CO. 

2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. Living, Dead, and Imagined Bodies: Political Violence and 

Forensic Inquiry in Canada. Second Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights 

Symposium: Bridging the Collaborative Gap, September 25-27, Knoxville, TN. 

2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. Appropriating Power: The Meaning of Reconciliation in Settler 

Colonial Canada. Southern Anthropology Society 50th Anniversary Meeting. April 

9-11, Athens, GA. 

2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. and Amanda J. Reinke. Anthropologists Beyond Borders: The 

Globalization of Justice and Human Rights. 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for 

Applied Anthropology. March 24-28, Pittsburgh, PA. (presented by A. Reinke) 

2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. Reclaiming our Anthropological Roots: Forensic Anthropology 

Reframed as Holistic Anthropology. 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied 

Anthropology. March 24-28, Pittsburgh, PA. 

2014 Kim, Jaymelee J. Human Rights, Transitional Justice, [Mis]Information, and 

Anthropological Knowledge in Canada. 113th Meeting of the American 

Anthropological Association. December 3-7, Washington, D.C. 

2014 Kim, Jaymelee J. Structural Violence and the Recreation of Identity: First Nations 

and the Fight for Resources. Southern Anthropological Society Conference, March 

30-April 1, Cherokee, NC. 

2013 Kim, Jaymelee J. The Intersection of Theory and Practice: How Cultural 

Anthropology Informs Forensic Anthropology. The University of Tennessee 

Department of Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture Series, Knoxville, TN. 

Posters 

2013 Kim, Jaymelee J. and Adrianne Kembel. Religion, Spirituality, and Transitional 

Justice: Findings in Canada and Uganda. Inaugural Disasters, Displacement, and 

Human Rights Symposium: Framing the Field, February 8-10, Knoxville, TN. 


2012 Kim, Jaymelee J. Transitional Justice in a Non-Transitioning Society: A Study of the 

Perceived Efficacy of Canada’s Justice and Reconciliation Efforts. W.K. McClure 

Scholarship Study for World Affairs Symposium, Knoxville, TN. 

Panels 

2015 Organizer, Counter-Narratives in North American Anthropology: Challenging 

Dominant Discourse in Justice, Rights, and Representation. 114 th Annual Meeting of 

the American Anthropological Association, November 18-22, Denver, CO. 

2015 Organizer, Anthropology and Indigeneity: Situating Knowledge, Memory, and 

Identity in North America. Southern Anthropological Society 50th Anniversary 

Meeting. April 9-11, Athens, GA. 

2014 Organizer and Chair, The Influence of Stakeholders, Westernization, and Policy on 

Anthropological Knowledge Production in Disaster, Displacement, and Human 

Rights Research and Practice. 113th Meeting of the American Anthropological 

Association. December 3-7, Washington, D.C. 

2013 Moderator, Disaster, Displacement, and Human Rights Roundtable: What’s 

Anthropology Got to do with it? Inaugural Disaster, Displacement, & Human Rights 

Symposium: Framing the Field. February 8-10, Knoxville, TN. 

Invited Lectures & Roundtables 

2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. Roundtable entitled, The Politics of Allyship and Representation 

in Research and Advocacy on Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights.” Second 

Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights Symposium: Bridging the Collaborative 

Gap, September 25-27, Knoxville, TN. 

2014 Kim, Jaymelee J. Polygamy & Marriage Practices. The University of Findlay 

Psychology Program, Findlay, OH. 

2014 Kim, Jaymelee J. Professional Development in Anthropology. University of 

Tennessee Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN. 

2013 Kim, Jaymelee J. Applied Anthropology in Real World Scenarios. University of 

Tennessee Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN. 

2013 Kim, Jaymelee J. Indigenous Rights and Human Rights in British Columbia. 

University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN. (Declined) 

2011 Kim, Jaymelee J. Transitional Justice in Post-conflict Uganda and Post-colonial 

Canada, a Comparison. University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology, 

Knoxville, TN. 

2011 Kim, Jaymelee J. 2nd Institute for African Transitional Justice Conference - Whose 

Memory Counts. The Refugee Law Project, Kampala, Uganda. (Invitation Declined) 

RESEARCH PROJECTS & FIELD WORK 

2014-Present “Agency of the Dead and Implications for Transitional Justice in northern Uganda,” 

Co-PIs: Tricia Redeker Hepner, Dawnie Wolfe Steadman, Julia Hanebrink. 

2013-Present “Implications of Transitional Justice and Structural Violence in Canada.” Primary 

Field Site: British Columbia, CAN 

2012 “Perceptions of Transitional Justice in a Canadian Context.” Primary Field Site: 

British Columbia, CAN 

2011 “Preliminary Investigation of Perceived Efficacy of Transitional Justice in Canada.” 

Field Sites: Manitoba, British Columbia, CAN 


2011 “Rapid Assessment of Post-Conflict Community Needs (and Forensic Implications) 

in northern Uganda.” Co-PI: Adrianne Kembel. Field Sites: Gulu, Kitgum, and Pader 

Districts, Uganda 

2010-2011 “Burundi Refugees in Transition: Impacts on Family Stability from Changes in 

Social and Economic Capital in Migration,” Co-PI: Denise Bates. Field Site: 

Knoxville, TN 

TEACHING POSITIONS 

2014-Present Assistant Professor 

UF Department of Social, Behavioral, and Justice Sciences, Findlay, OH. 

2008-2014 Laboratory Instructor, Human Anatomy (11 Semesters) 

UT Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Knoxville, TN. 

2011 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Biology 

Lincoln Memorial University, Alcoa, TN. 

2009 Instructor, Forensic Archaeology 

University of Tennessee FBI Training Course, Knoxville, TN. 

SERVICE 

Profession 

2015 Member, American Anthropological Association Committee for Human Rights. 

2014-Present Member, Steering Committee of the Second Conference in Disaster, Displacement, 

& Human Rights: Bridging the Collaborative Gap, University of Tennessee 

Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN. 

University 

2015 Member, Honors Program Advisory Board, University of Findlay, OH. 

2014-Present Forensic Science Accreditation Officer, Department of Social, Behavioral, and 

Justice Sciences, University of Findlay, Findlay, OH. 

2012-2013 Graduate Student Organizer and Publications Manager, Inaugural Disaster, 

Displacement, & Human Rights Symposium: Framing the Field, University of 

Tennessee Department of Anthropology, February 8-10, Knoxville, TN. 

2012 Videographer, American Indian Sign Language Conference, August 31-September 2, 

Browning, MT. 

2006-2009 Forensic Recovery Volunteer, Forensic Anthropology Center, Knoxville, TN. 

Community 

2015 Mentor, Findlay City Schools, Findlay, OH. 

2014-Present Forensic Anthropologist on call, Lucas County Coroner’s Office, Toledo, OH. 

2010-Present International Emergency Response Team Member, Kenyon International 

Emergency Services. 

2011 Cultural Anthropologist, UT Healing Transitions Network. Knoxville, TN. 

2009-2012 Public Outreach Presenter, Career Options in Anthropology. Presented at Karns 

High School, Knoxville, TN; Central High School, Knoxville, TN; Children’s Museum, 

Oak Ridge, TN; Johnson City Home-school Program, Knoxville, TN. 

2009-2010 Forensic Anthropologist, Knox County Regional Forensic Center, Knoxville, TN. 


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 

American Anthropological Association, Member 

American Association of Forensic Sciences, Trainee Affiliate 

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, Member 

Association of Indigenous Anthropologists, Member 

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, Member 

Society for Applied Anthropology, Member 

Society for the Anthropology of North America, Member 

Society for Urban, National, Transnational/Global Anthropology, Member 

REFERENCES 

Available Upon Request

Jaymelee J. Kim

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?