Curriculum VITA

Curriculum
Vita

 

photo of Eun-Jin Kim

Name:  Eun-Jin, Kim

 

Address:  

         
    
(E-mail) minkykim@yahoo.com

         
  

 

                                                  

Title: 
Ph.D. , and as of
Jan. 2006, Assistant Professor, Tarleton State University-Texas A&M
University

 

Education:

  • 2000.- 2005. Ph.D. student, Family Resource
    Management,

Ohio State University (GPA:3.83,
Supporting Areas: Statistics, Sociology)

  • 1996.  B.S, M.S. Home Economics , Hanyang University, Korea

 

Awards: 

  • Recipient
    of the AARP Public Policy Institute Financial Services and the Older
    Consumer Award: the 50th
    American Council on Consumer
    Interests Conference in Washington D.C. (2004)

  • Recipient
    of Student Travel Fund: the 49th American Council of

Consumer Interests Conference
in
Atlanta, Georgia (2003)

  • Dorothy
    D. Scott Fellowship (2003-2004)

College of Human Ecology, Ohio State University

  • Bowers-Hunt
    Fellowship (2000-2001)

Department of Consumer
Sciences,
Ohio State University

  • Academic
    Fellowship (1987-1990)

Department of Home
Economics,
Hanyang University, Korea

 

Professional Experience:

  • Dissertation
    research using a national longitudinal data set, Health and

    
Retirement Study (2003-2004)

  • Reviewer
    of Competitive Papers for the 2005 American Council on

     Consumer
Interests Conference

  • Graduate
    Teaching Associate:
    FmResM260
    Family Financial Management

(Autumn 2004)

  • Teaching
    Internship: FmResM543 Consumer Decision-Making

 (Winter 2004)

  • Teaching Internship: FmResM543 Consumer
    Decision-Making

      (Autumn 2003)

  • Workshop:
    Survey Research Methodology-Health and Retirement Study

at University of Michigan (2003)

  • Graduate
    Research Associate:

“Rural Families Speak” project [Rural low-income families: Tracking their

well-being in the context of
welfare reform
] (2001-2003)

 

Statistical Skill:

  • Analyzing data collected using
    multi-cluster sampling methods

  • ANOVA,
    Multivariate regression analysis, Logistic regression analysis,

    Simultaneous regression analysis (2 Stage Least
Squares), etc.

  • Statistical Software: SPSS, STATA, SAS,
    MINITAB

 

Journal Articles:

Eun-Jin Kim & Loren Geistfeld. 2005.  A preliminary study
of financial management assistance use by the elderly in the U.S. 
The International Journal of Human
Ecology
, 6(1), 1-16.


Eun-Jin Kim& Wen S. Chern.  2005.  Contemporary Chineses
households’ food away from home expenditure and Becker’s household
production theory. The International
Journal of Human Ecology
, 6(1), 17-28.


Kim, E-J., Geistfeld, L. V., & Seiling, S. B. (2003). Factors
affecting health care decisions of rural poor women.  Asian Women, 16(1), 73-86.

Other Publications:

  • Kim,
    E-J., & Geistfeld, L. V. (2005).

Elder
vulnerability: Definition and application.

Consumer
Interests Annual, 51.

(abstract)

 

  • Kim,
    E-J., & Geistfeld, L. V. (2004).

A preliminary study of financial
management assistance
use by the elderly.
Consumer
Interests Annual, 50.
(abstract)

 

  • Kim,
    E-J., Seiling, S. B., & Varcoe, K. (2004).

Rural poor women’s
medical service use: Does race make a difference?

Eastern Family Economics
and Resource Management Association, 59-70.

 

  • Kim,
    E-J., & Chern, W. S. (2004).

Food away from home expenditures by
contemporary Chinese
households: An application of household production theory. Eastern
Family
Economics and Resource Management Association, 43-51.

 

  • Kim, E-J., Geistfeld, L. V., & Seiling, S. B. (2003).

The disenfranchised poor:
Rural poor women’s health care decisions.

Consumer Interests
Annual, 49.

 

  • Kim,
    E-J., & Geistfeld, L. V. (2003).

Is she working enough? Rural poor
women’s
unemployment and

depression. Proceedings of
Rural
Sociological Society, 66 (abstract).

 

  • Lee,
    J., & Kim, E-J. (2003).

Consumer
protection for the elderly (pp.119-123).
In Encyclopedia of

retirement and finance.  London: Greenwood Press.

 

  • Hanna,
    S. D., Lan, B.,
    Lai, C., Doll, K., Kim, E-J., Ku, D., Elmerick,
    S., & Seo, J. (2002). Consistency of
    household savings, a standard retirement planning model, and a
    prescriptive life cycle model. Consumer Interests
    Annual, 48.

 

  • Seo, B., & Kim, E-J. (1996).

Attitude toward
remarriage of old widows.
 Korean Gerontological
Society, 16(2), 53-66.



 

 

National Conference
Presentations: 

  • The
    51st American Council on Consumer Interests Conference in

Columbus, OH (2005)

  • The
    50th American Council on Consumer Interests Conference in

Washington D.C. (2004)

  • Eastern
    Family Economics and Resource Management Association

Conference in Tampa, Florida (2004)

  • The
    49th American Council on Consumer Interests Conference in
    Atlanta,

Georgia (2003)

  • The
    66th Annual Meeting of Rural Sociological Society in
    Montreal, Canada (2003)



Dissertation Research

  • Financial Management Assistance Use by
    the Vulnerable Elderly

Data: Health and Retirement Study 2000

Committee
Professors: Dr. Loren V. Geistfeld

                            
      Dr.
Jinkook Lee

                            
      Dr.
Catherine P. Montalto