Jeong-Hee Kim is an educational scholar who serves as professor and department chair of Curriculum & Instruction at Texas Tech University.
Kim was born and raised in South Korea,[1] and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Education from Chonnam National University in 1988.
[2] She later attended Arizona State University, from which she received a Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in 2000 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies in 2005.
[3] Kim began her academic career teaching English in South Korea in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s.
[1] In 2015, Kim joined the faculty at Texas Tech University, becoming the department chair in 2019.