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Biography

Jiyul Kim is a historian of East Asia, Cold War, U.S. foreign policy, and, more broadly, war in human civilization. He has been teaching in the history department since 2012. Prior to 91ֱ�� College, he served for nearly 30 years in the U.S. Army (1981-2009) with assignments in the United States, Germany, Korea, and Japan.

His final years in the army was as professor of national security and director of Asian studies at the U.S. Army War College (Carlisle, PA), where he developed a curriculum on regional studies based on history and culture.

He has published broadly on history, culture, archaeology, and the military. He brings his real world and academic experiences to his teaching.

His first course, HIST 393 History and the Formulation of U.S. National Security Policy and Strategy (2012-2014), examined the use of history in the formulation of U.S. national security policy and strategy using case studies of historical and contemporary security issues to examine how historical knowledge can better inform U.S. foreign and military policy and strategy.

His next courses, HIST 392 Theory and History of War (2015) and HIST 399 War and Civilization, examined the role and place in history of war from the evolutionary origin of conflict some 10,000 years ago through the impact of wars on the course of human civilization to the present.

His most recent course, HIST 343 Research Seminar: War, Military and the American Nation, explored the impact of wars and the military in how the United States developed as a nation.