Stephanie Kim is a scholar, educator, and academic leader. Her research explores the ways universities respond to global markets, international student mobility, and evolving forms of academic labor.
She is the author of Constructing Student Mobility (MIT Press, 2023), an award-winning book that examines how universities in the United States and South Korea came to rely on international student recruitment as a solution to financial and organizational pressures. Her work has been recognized with book awards from both the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the Comparative and International Education Society.
Dr. Kim serves as Faculty Director of the Higher Education Administration program at Georgetown University, where she teaches courses on organizational change and global higher education. Alongside her scholarship, she has spent more than fifteen years leading academic programs, developing faculty initiatives, and working at the intersection of higher education practice and policy.
Her current writing explores the future of academic work and the changing labor structures of contemporary universities.
Constructing Student Mobility
How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul
The MIT Press, 2023
How universities in the US and South Korea compete for global student markets—and how university financials shape students’ lives.
