Professor Kwak goes above and beyond in her generosity and concern for students and colleagues. She is a committed member of the UC San Diego community, demonstrated by her service to a wide range of departments and her incredible course load each year. She has received extremely high evaluation scores despite teaching large lower-division general-education requirement courses. Many undergraduate and graduate students have praised Professor Kwak’s “keen pedagogical methods” and her “consummate skill in using various sorts of media and classroom technologies to enliven her classes, engage students, and perhaps most of all, to stimulate and inspire students to engage with complex and often controversial social/historical issues.”