Dr. Simone Sunghae Kim, Visiting Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Coordinator, Korean Students Programs
Professor Kim’s research interests focus on multicultural/intercultural pastoral care and counseling, feminist pastoral care and theology, and pastoral theology of gender, race, and ethnicity. She has published several articles including Psychological Contours of Multicultural Feminist Hermeneutics: Han and Relationality (Pastoral Psychology) and A Korean Feminist Perspective on God Representation (Pastoral Psychology). She is currently working on two publications, Individualism and Collectivism: Implications for Women (article) and Pastoral Care and Counseling with Korean-Americans (book). She is a member of the Society for Pastoral Theology (SPT) and the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC). She counsels at the Care and Counseling Center of Georgia as an Advanced Pastoral Counseling Resident. She is certified ready to receive a call to ordained ministry in the Presbyterian Church of USA. She is actively engaged in Korean-American community counseling and providing workshops.
Contact
Dr. Simone Sunghae Kim
1531 Dickey Drive
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
United States
Phone: 404.727.6322
Fax: 404.727.2494
Email: skim292@emory.edu
Education
- PhD, Yonsei University, Seoul, S. Korea, 2006
- MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2006
- MA, Claremont Graduate University, 1989
- BA, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984
Publications
BOOKS
- Pastoral Care and Counseling with Korean-Americans (forthcoming)
ARTICLES
- “Individualism and collectivism: Implications for women” Pastoral Psychology (forthcoming)
- “The perspective of feminist pastoral theology, a book review of Indigenous and cultural psychology: Understanding people in context,” Pastoral Psychology, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Sept. 2007): 73-80.
- “Psychological contours of multicultural feminist hermeneutics: Han and relationality”
Pastoral Psychology, Vol. 55, No. 6 (July 2007): 723-730. - “A Korean feminist perspective on God representation,” Pastoral Psychology, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Sept. 2006): 35-45.
- “John Nash: The sufferings of those who loved him,” Pastoral Psychology, Vol. 53, No. 5 (May 2005): 397-404.
- “Korean-Americans in Korea: Their identity, social & psychological make-up, and mental health,” Journal of Korea Christian Counseling & Psychology, 4, (December 2002): 81-116.
- “Psychological and cross-cultural perspectives of Korean midlifers: In light of the Korea/Japan World Cup 2002,” Korean Social Theory, 1, (Spring/Summer 2002): 252-267.