Nanny Kim is a China historian interested in mines and networks in the mountain zone of southwest China and Southeast Asia. She employs a fieldwork-based approach that combines traditional historical records with oral histories and remains and uses methodologies of history, geography and ethnology. Research that mainly focused on silver mining in Yunnan was made possible by two DFG projects in collaboration with Yang Yuda (Fudan University) and other colleagues in China and Vietnam (2015-2018 and 2019-2022) and a membership with the Institute for Advanced Study (2023-2024). Her project at GSSC aims at realizing a systematic integration of networks of mobility and case studies on transformations of mining communities during and after mineral exploitation.
