Dr. Timothy Tseng

Academic Degrees & Education

• Union Theological Seminary

• Ph.D. (Church History)

• M.Div. (Theology)

• New York University

• B.A. (Psychology)

Academic Appointments & Experience

• Kairos University: Professor of Church History

• Canaan Taiwanese Christian Church: Pastor of English Ministries

• Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity: Executive Director and Founder

• Logos Evangelical Seminary: Adjunct Professor

• University of San Francisco: Adjunct Professor

• Pacific School of Religion: Adjunct Professor

• Graduate Theological Union/American Baptist Seminary of the West: Associate Professor of American Religious History

• American Baptist Seminary of the West: Director of the Asian American Center

• Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Crozer Theological Seminary: Assistant Professor

• Denver Seminary: Assistant Professor of Church History

Awards

• Theological Scholar’s Grant

• 2006 Association of Theological Schools (Lilly Endowment)

• Project: “Persistent Witness: A Documentary History of Asian Protestants in the North American Diaspora”

• The Changing Face of American Evangelicalism Research Grant

• 2004-2005 Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (Wheaton College - Luce Foundation)

• Project: “The Evangelical Reconstruction of Chinese American Protestantism”

• Project on Lived Theology

• 2003-2004 University of Virginia (Lilly Endowment Inc.)

• Faculty Grant

• 2001 Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (Lilly Endowment Inc.)

• Workshop on Teaching & Learning for Theological School Faculty

• 2000-2001 Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (Lilly Endowment Inc.)

• Participant in the Project on Theology and Race

• 2000-2001 University of Virginia (Lilly Endowment Inc.)

• Project on Theology and Community

• 1997-1998 Loyola College in Maryland (Lilly Endowment Inc.)

• Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism Project Research Grant

• 1996-1997 Andover-Newton Theological School & Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (Pew Charitable Trusts)

• Project: “Unbinding Their Souls: Chinese Protestant Women in Twentieth-Century America”

• Summer Faculty Research Stipend

• 1996 Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture (Lilly Endowment Inc.)

• Project: “Generation to Generation: An Oral-Video History Project Documenting Chinese Protestantism in the United States Since World War II”

• Faculty Grants Seminar for Underrepresented Faculty

• February 17-19, 1995 Association of Theological Schools

• Dissertation Fellowship

• 1992-1993 Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture (Lilly Endowment Inc.)

Affiliations

• American Academy of Religion

• American Historical Association

• American Society of Church History

• Association for Asian American Studies

• Organization of American Historians

Publications & Presentations

• With David Yoo, “History of Religion in Asian America,” Oxford Handbook of Asian American History (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

• “Religious Leaders,” Asian and Oceanic American Religious Cultures Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO)

• Asian American Christianity: A Reader, Co-edited with Dr. Viji Nakka-Cammauf (Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity, August 2009)

• The Growth of Chinese Churches in the Bay Area: The 2008 Report of the Bay Area Chinese Churches Research Project, Co-edited with Dr. James Chuck (Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity, March 2009)

• Conversations on Forming Asian American Evangelical Theologies, Co-edited with D.J. Chuang (L2 Foundation, 2006)

• Asian American Religious Leadership Today: A Preliminary Inquiry (Duke Divinity School, 2005)

• “Exploring Asian American Christianity: Its Past, Present, and Future,” American Baptist Quarterly XXI:3 (September, 2002)

• “Celebrating the Sesquicentennial of Rochester Theological Seminary,” American Baptist Quarterly XX:2 (June, 2001)

Books

• Book Chapter: “The Multicultural Future of American Evangelicalism,” in The Future of Evangelicalism in America (Columbia University Press, forthcoming)

• Book: Trans-Pacific Transpositions: Protestantism in Chinese America (tentative title)

• Book: Persistent Witness: A Documentary History of Asian American Christianity, co-edited with Hyung Shin Park

• Book Chapter: “Children of Light: Following Jesus in Public Life” in Honoring the Generations: Learning with Asian North American Congregations (Judson Press, 2012): 148–168

• “Polity, Theology, and Ethnicity: Three Factors in the History of Asian American Baptists in Twentieth-Century America” in Baptist History Celebration – 2007 (Particular Baptist Press, 2008): 488-496

• “Beyond Orientalism and Assimilation: The Asian American as Historical Subject” in Realizing the America of Our Hearts: Theological Voices of Asian Americans (Chalice Press, 2003): 55-72

• “Trans-Pacific Transpositions: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese North American Protestantism,” in Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America (Routledge, 2003): 241-271

Teaching

• American Religious History

• Asian American Christianity (also as a GTU Ph.D. seminar)

• Cultures of East Asia: Philosophy & Religion

• Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism in the Modern World

• History of Christianity courses (Early, Medieval, Reformation, Modern, Global, and Multicultural Perspectives)

• History of Trans-Pacific Christianity Since 1500

• Race and Religion in U.S. History (also as a GTU Ph.D. seminar)

• Religion in 20th Century United States: An Oral History Approach

• Religion in the American West (GTU Ph.D. seminar)

• Women and Religion in U.S. History