Patricia Eunji Kim is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at New York University as a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow. She received her BA with Highest Honors in Near Eastern Studies and History of Art from UC Berkeley and her MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Kim teaches and researches Greek and Near Eastern art, with a focus on issues of gender and ethnicity, cross-cultural interaction, cultural heritage, and environmental humanities. She is editor and author of a forthcoming book, Timescales: Ecological Temporalities Across Disciplines (under contract, University of Minnesota Press), a forthcoming article about intersectional identities and cultural heritage, as well as several catalogue and public essays. She is at work on a monograph that will be the first synthetic study of the art and archaeology of Hellenistic royal women (4th-1st century BCE) from the Mediterranean and Middle East. Her interdisciplinary work has received support from, among others, the Kolb Society, the National Geographic Society, the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, and the Beinecke Foundation, and has featured in, among others, MonumentLab, France24, Newsworks, and the Washington Post.
Affiliation as of June 2025: Assistant Professor, New York University.
Email: pek237@nyu.edu
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