Gene Kim is a Ph.D. student in History and East Asian Languages. His research focuses on the political, social, and oceanic history of Japan's post-1945 relations with the two Koreas. His research interests also include Korean and Japanese interactions with the Soviet Union and the United States in the North Pacific. He holds an A.M. in Regional Studies--East Asia from Harvard, a master's from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, and a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he wrote a senior essay on medieval European heretics.