Joo-hee Kim is a professor emeritus at Sungshin Women’s University. She earned her B.A. degree from Seoul National University (1974) in English literature and anthropology and M.A.(1976) and Ph. D.(1981) degrees from Northwestern University in anthropology. She spent most of her academic life at Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul, Korea, until she retired in 2016. She served as Director of the Health Family Support Center of Gangbuk-gu between 2006 and 2014. She has published extensively on the family and kinship in Korea and India.