Allie Kim

Hunter Rawlings Presidential Research Scholar

The Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholars program selects highly motivated students and provides them with the opportunity to conduct financially supported, faculty-mentored research throughout their undergraduate years. Students are encouraged to pursue their intellectual interests through research in any area of study including the Humanities, Physical and Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Engineering. Selected RCPRS students have demonstrated academic excellence in addition to personal characteristics necessary to becoming a great researcher. My fully-funded research utilizes Aihwa Ong and Leti Volpp’s anthropological and sociological framework of cultural citizenship to assess how the absence of it contributes to Asian American political alienation, and thus, social/political invisibility. Specifically, I am investigating Chinese Americans to analyze how despite their legal citizenship, the lack of cultural citizenship allows violence against Asian Americans to flourish.