Linda Kim is an Associate Professor of American and Modern Art at Drexel University, where she teaches courses on Modern Art, Race and Visual Culture, and Women in Art. Her 2018 book, Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman’s Race of Mankind was a finalist for the CAA Charles Rufus Morey book prize and won the Smithsonian Museum of American Art’s Eldridge book prize. In addition to her book Race Experts, she has published articles in American Art, Frontiers, and Visual Resources, as well as essays for exhibition catalogues and anthologies, reviews and blog posts. Her research has been awarded grants from the Henry Moore Foundation, the USC Shoah Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and the Georgia O’Keeffe Research Center. She has served on award juries for the Getty Scholars Program’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, CAA Professional Development Fellowship, CAA Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Research and Scholars Center Fellowship, and is currently (2026-2030) on the editorial board of American Art Journal.
“Boundary Objects: Art, Craft, and Design in the Works of Isamu Noguchi and Ruth Asawa,” article (Fall 2026), American Art Journal https://americanart.si.edu/research/journal
“Encounters along the Color Line: Isamu Noguchi and Ruth Asawa’s Wartime Racial Formations,” in Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America, ed. Cindy Kang (Barnes Foundation/Yale University Press, 2026) https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300292053/noguchi-to-asawa/
Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind (University of Nebraska Press, 2018) https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496201850/race-experts/
“Separate Spheres: Potterines, Gender, and Domestic Sculpture in Turn-of-the-Century America,” article (Summer 2014), American Art Journal https://doi.org/10.1086/677963
“’A Woman Sculptor Among the Primitive Races’: Gender and Sculpture in the 1930s,” article (Summer 2014), Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies https://muse.jhu.edu/article/552629
“A Law of Unintended Consequences: U.S. Postal Censorship of Lynching Photographs,” article (June 2012), Visual Resources Journal https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2012.678812
“Inserting the Personal in the International: The American Girl at the 1900 Paris Exposition,” essay in anthology, Rebecca Rogers and Myriam Boussahba-Bravard, eds., Women in International and Universal Exhibitions (1878-1937), (Routledge, 2017) https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315196534/women-international-universal-exhibitions-1876%E2%80%931937-rebecca-rogers-myriam-boussahba-bravard
“How to Tell Your Friends from the Japanese”: The Malvina Hoffman Papers and The Races of Mankind blog post on The Iris: Behind the Scenes at the Getty (http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/), J. Paul Getty Museum and Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA (2017)