Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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Jason Kim
Affiliate, FSI - CISAC
Visiting Scholar, FSI - CISACBioLieutenant Colonel (promotable) Jason J. Kim is a U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer (FAO) specializing in the Indo-Pacific. He is a U.S. Army War College Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation. Jason has extensive international engagement and political-military experience working with allies and partners throughout this region. His key FAO assignments include serving as the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Liaison Officer to the Republic of Korea Army, Country Director for Japan, Korea, India, and Vietnam at U.S. Army Pacific, Executive Officer to the Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Pacific, and Deputy Chief, Joint-U.S. Military Affairs Group – Korea (JUSMAG-K), U.S. Embassy Seoul. Jason most recently completed duties as the Branch Chief overseeing operations with 24 U.S. Embassy Security Cooperation Offices in the Strategic Planning and Policy Directorate (J5), U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, including work on Taiwan defense. His research interests include security cooperation, security assistance, international arms transfers, defense industrial base operations, and ally and partner capability development.
Jason earned a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he was commissioned in 2003, and a master’s degree in International Affairs with a concentration in Japan and Korea from the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), University of California San Diego in 2012. He currently serves as President of the GPS Alumni Board. -
Matthew Kohrman
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
On Leave from 10/01/2022 To 06/30/2023BioMatthew Kohrman’s research and writing bring anthropological methods to bear on the ways health, culture, and politics are interrelated. Focusing on the People's Republic of China, he engages various intellectual terrains such as governmentality, gender theory, political economy, critical science studies, narrativity, and embodiment. His first monograph, Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China, raises questions about how embodied aspects of human existence, such as our gender, such as our ability to propel ourselves through space as walkers, cyclists and workers, become founts for the building of new state apparatuses of social provision, in particular, disability-advocacy organizations. Over the last decade, Prof. Kohrman has been involved in research aimed at analyzing and intervening in the biopolitics of cigarette smoking among Chinese citizens. This work, as seen in his recently edited volume--Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives--expands upon heuristic themes of his earlier disability research and engages in novel ways techniques of public health, political philosophy, and spatial history. More recently, he has begun projects linking ongoing interests at the intersection of phenomenology and political economy with questions regarding environmental attunement and the arts.
