Dr. Stephanie K. Kim (she/her/hers) brings over fifteen years of experience as a higher education professional. She is a faculty member at Georgetown University, where she is Associate Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of Higher Education Administration in the School of Continuing Studies.
At Georgetown, Dr. Kim leads the strategic and curricular direction of the Master’s in Higher Education Administration, which she launched in 2018. She also co-leads the newly developed Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, which equips faculty members and other learning professionals with pedagogical knowledge, skills, and tools. She sits on the School of Continuing Studies Executive Committee and is also an affiliated faculty member of the Asian Studies Program in the School of Foreign Service.
As a scholar, Dr. Kim researches and writes about higher education internationalization policies in the United States and across Asia. Her work appears in journals, edited volumes, and policy venues and has received press coverage from the Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR, CNN, and other major media outlets. Her first book, Constructing Student Mobility, was published with the MIT Press in 2023 and received two Best Book Awards, from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Council on International Higher Education and from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Higher Education Special Interest Group.
Prior to arriving at Georgetown, Dr. Kim held academic and administrative positions at UC Berkeley and received her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA. She has also held fellowships with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), East-West Center, and Fulbright Program.