Religious Studies
Younghwa Kim is a historian of religion specializing in World Christianity, with research primarily focused on Korean Christianity. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies at Emory University and holds master's degrees from Yale University and Boston University. His dissertation integrates social history, cultural history, and anthropological approaches to examine how the identities and practices of Korean Christian women were shaped by interreligious, intercultural, and transnational encounters. His work has been supported by the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; the Yale Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; Emory University's Laney Graduate School and Candler School of Theology; and the OMSC at Princeton Theological Seminary. He grew up in South Korea and New Zealand and has lived in Boston, New Haven, and Atlanta.
