A Team of Experienced College Professors
Joy S. Kim, Ph.D.
Joy received her B.A. in History from Johns Hopkins University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. She was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University’s Council on East Asian Studies, Luce Assistant Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College, and Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. She was a faculty advisor at the Whitman College, one of seven residential colleges at Princeton University, for many years. She worked with incoming freshmen throughout their first year in college with academic advising—course selection, course changes, and academic difficulties.
Joy is fluent in Korean and she has worked with Korean international students in various roles. She has spent multiple years in Korea researching with the support of Fulbright Fellowship, American Association of University Women, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and Korea Foundation Fellowship. She remains active in academic research and writing.
Chad R. Diehl, Ph.D.
Chad received his B.A. in History from Montana State University, Bozeman, and M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. After working as Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA, Chad held faculty positions as an Assistant Professor of History at Emmanuel College in Boston, Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Chad has served as an academic advisor to hundreds of students, including as a pre-major advisor in an intensive first-year program and as the director of the Asian Studies Minor Program at Loyola University.
Chad is fluent in Japanese and has spent three years at universities in Japan conducting research, including on a Graduating Senior Fulbright Fellowship and a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He has also published books and articles on Japanese history and maintains an active international research agenda.