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Dr Hyun Jin Kim

Dr Hyun Jin Kim

Department of Classics and Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

P: +61 2 9114 0933
F: +61 2 9351 3918

Areas of Expertise

  • Greek and Roman Historiography
  • Greek and Roman Ethnography
  • Comparative Literature
  • Late Antiquity

Employment

  • 2012-present Australian Research Council
    DECRA Fellow
  • 2009-2012 University of Sydney Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Education

  • 2004-2008 University of Oxford , Department of Classics and Ancient History, University College, UK, DPhil (PhD) Classical Languages and Literature
  • 2002-2003 University of Auckland, New Zealand, MA
  • 1999-2001 University of Auckland, New Zealand, BA Classics

Books

  • Kim, H.J. (2009) Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China, London, Duckworth
  • Kim, H.J. (under contract) The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe, Cambridge University Press

Articles and Book Chapters

  • Horesh,N. and Kim, H.J. (2011), "Why Coins Turned Round the World Over? A Critical Analysis of the Origins and Transmission of Ancient Metallic Money", CHINA REPORT 47 : 4, 279–302.
  • Kim, H.J. (2010), “Herodotus’ Scythians viewed from a Central Asian perspective: Its Historicity and Significance”, Ancient West and East 9, 115-135
  • Kim, H.J. (2011), "The heirs of Greek civilization: Indians and Turks?", Response article (2000 words), The Athens Dialogues, e-journal, Harvard University Centre for Hellenic Studies
  • Kim, H.J. (accepted May 2011), “The invention of the Barbarian and Greek Identity in 6th century BC Ionia” in J. Skinner and E. Almagor, eds., Ancient Ethnography: New Approaches, Bloomsbury (8000 words, book contribution)
  • Kim, H.J. (accepted, July 2009), “The Barbarian Strikes back: Tatian and the Oratio ad Graecos” in P. Mckechnie, ed., publisher to be determined (8000 words, invited book contribution)
  • Kim, H.J. (submitted), “Identities and Ethnicity from a Comparative Perspective” in C. Katsari, ed., Cambridge University Press (8000 words, invited book contribution)

Reviews

  • Kim, H.J. (2011), Review of Yichun Zhou: Festivals, Feasts, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece (Cambridge, 2010), Ancient History Bulletin, 24.3/4, 162-65
  • Kim, H.J. (2010), Review of A. Beecroft: Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China (Cambridge, 2010), Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  • Kim, H.J. (2009), Review of W. Scheidel (ed.): Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires. Oxford Studies in Early Empires (Oxford; New York, 2009), Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  • Kim, H.J. (2007), Review of E. Baragwanath: Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus (Oxford, 2008), Prudentia, 39, 2, 77-80
  • Kim, H.J.(2004), Review of J. Mikalson: Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (Chapel Hill, 2003), Prudentia, 36, 2, 175-78

Teaching Experience

  • GRKA 3603 Greek Historiography (Herodotus, Thucydides), First Semester, 2010, University of Sydney
  • GRKA 3602 Greek Epic (Homer), Second Semester, 2009, University of Sydney
  • Greek Language 200, First Semester, 2008, University of Auckland
  • Latin language 200, Second Semester, 2003, University of Auckland
  • MA thesis examiner (thesis on Demosthenes), First Semester, 2010, University of Sydney
  • Doctoral Thesis examiner (thesis on Greco-Roman sources on East and South Asia), First Semester 2011, Macquarie University.

Fellowships, Awards and Grants

  • University of Sydney Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2009-2012)
  • Commonwealth Scholarship to the UK (2004-2007)
  • Fulbright Alumni Award to the USA (2004, declined to accept due to decision to go to Oxford)
  • University of Auckland Masters and Honours Scholarship (2002-3)
  • Senior Prize in Greek (2001)
  • John Mulgan Memorial Prize in Greek (1999, 2000)

Conferences and Seminars

2011

  • ‘Greco-Roman Civilization from a Eurasian Perspective’, University of Pennsylvania, Department of classics
  • ‘The Invention of the Barbarian in Late 6th Century BC Ionia’, University College London, Department of Classics
  • ‘The Impact of Persian /Near Eastern ‘Ethnography’ on Greek Ethnography and Greek Identity’, UK Classical Association Conference, University of Durham, Department of Classics
  • ‘Globalization in Antiquity, The Chinese Impact of Medieval Europe, its Implications for Contemporary East-West Relations’, Social Sciences and Humanities meet the Changing World: Challenges, Opportunities and New Frontiers Conference, Fudan University Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences
  • Humanities meet the Changing World: Challenges, Opportunities and New Frontiers Conference, Fudan University Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences
  • ‘The Origins of the Greek notion of the ‘Barbarian’, ASCS Conference, University of Auckland, Department of Classics

2010

  • ‘The heirs of Greek civilization: Indians and Turks?’, Onassis Foundation Athens Dialogues Conference
  • ‘Herodotus’ Scythian Logos reviewed from a Central Asian Perspective’, American Philological Association Conference (APA)
  • ‘Herodotus and Sima Qian, Classical Greek and Early Chinese representation of Foreigners’, Stanford University, Department of Classics
  • ‘The historical Background to the Formulation of Greek Identity and the ‘Barbarian’ in Late 6th century BC Ionia’, Mediterranean Identities (MICHA) Conference, University of Leicester, Department of Classics
  • ‘The Huns and the Origins of Europe’, Ablaikhan University, Kazakhstan, Department of International Affairs and Foreign Languages
  • ‘The Central Asian Origins of Hunnic State Organisation’, University of Sydney, Department of Near Eastern Studies

2009

  • ‘Herodotus Book 4 from a Comparative Perspective’, University of Sydney, Department of Classics and Ancient History

2007

  • ‘Herodotus on tyrants and non-Greeks’, UK Classical Association Conference, University of Birmingham, Department of Classics

2006

  • ‘Herodotus’ portrayal of Non-Greeks’, University of Oxford, Department of Classics

2005

  • ‘The Sedentary Lydians in Greek thought and their representation in Herodotus’, University of Oxford, Department of Classics
  • ‘Herodotus: the Massagetan Episode’, University of Oxford, Department of Classics

Select General Audience

  • (2009) Wondrous Antiquities: The Histories of Herodotus, Nicholson Museum Course in a Day (Co-organiser and second speaker)
  • (2011) Greco-Roman Civilization from a Eurasian Perspective, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, special guest lecture

Academic Referee

  • Blackwells Publishers
  • Cambridge University Press