Stephanie K. Kim, Ph.D.


Stephanie Kim is a scholar of international higher education. Her work focuses on how universities adapt to global markets, international students, and changing academic labor structures.

Her book, Constructing Student Mobility, explores the dynamics of internationalization and organizational change across the higher education sector in the United States and in South Korea.

She serves as Faculty Director of the Higher Education Administration program at Georgetown University, where she teaches courses on global higher education and organizational leadership.


Constructing Student Mobility

How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul

The MIT Press, 2023

How universities in the US and South Korea compete for global student markets—and how university financials shape students’ lives.

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