ACADEMIC DEGREES & EDUCATION
Union Theological Seminary
Ph.D. (Church History)
M.Div. (Theology)
New York University
B.A. (Psychology)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & EXPERIENCE
Kairos Pacific 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
