Jung Min (Kevin) Kim is the Associate Director for the Asian American Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he directs student and faculty academic engagement and research projects in Asian American studies. Prior to joining the AAC he served as a collections researcher and lead curator for the Asian Pacific American Foodways Project at the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), a joint project between the ACM and the Asian Pacific American Center that documented the diversity, power, and resilience of Asian American food cultures in the Washington, DC region.

A food ethnographer, curator, and storyteller, his research focuses on the cultural politics of food within and across Asian American diasporic communities. His work has been features on CNN and Gastropod and he previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park where receive a Ph.D. in American Studies. He received his undergraduate degree in History (with Honors) from Swarthmore College. You can find him at home in Durham, NC cooking from his collection of historic restaurant cookbooks or on food-themed road trips with his friends and family in his spare time.