Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center at Princeton Theological Seminary
Editor-in-Chief, International Bulletin of Mission Research
Soojin Chung is Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center and teaches in the Department of History and Ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is Editor of the International Bulletin of Mission Research and the convener of the Princeton World Christianity Conference Gerald H. Anderson Lectures.
She previously served as Associate Professor in the School of Theology and Director of General Education under the Office of the Provost at Azusa Pacific University. She was the principal investigator of the Hispanic Serving Institution Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Vocation Academy Grant funded by the Council of Independent Colleges and Lilly Endowment.
Chung is the author of Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption (New York University Press, 2021) and has published articles and book chapters in various journals and edited volumes. Her current book project explores racism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia in world Christianity.
She is on the American Society of Missiology Board of Directors and the Editorial Board for the Journal of Faith in the Academic Profession and William B. Eerdmans Publishing’s history collection. She received her B.A. from the University of Virginia, M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Ph.D. in World Christianity from Boston University. From 2017–2018, she was a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies.
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Selected Publications
- Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption. New York University Press, 2021.
- “Recovering the Third World Force: World Christianity and Self-Determination,” Studies in World Christianity (October 2025).
- “Exiled Aliens: Christianity and Korean Migrant Nationalism, 1903–1945,” International Bulletin of Mission Research (July 2024).
- “History of World Christianity and the Future of Theological Education,” Current Mission Trends (March 2024).
- “Poor, Poverty—World Christianity” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.
- “Race and Ethnicity—World Christianity” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.
- “The Seed of Korean Christianity Grew in the Soil of Shamanism,” Christianity Today (November 2022).
- “Minjung Theology—World Christianity” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
- “All God’s Children: How Missionaries Fostered World Friendship through Transnational Adoption,” in Unlikely Friends: How God Uses Boundary-Crossing Friendships to Transform the World. Wipf and Stock, July 2021.
- “Civilization or Christianization: Female Missionaries’ Controversies and Contributions in Korea,” Fides et Historia: The Journal of the Conferences on Faith & History (Fall 2020).
- “Baptists, Global Christianity, and the Christian Tradition,” in Baptists and the Christian Tradition. B&H Academic, June 2020.
- “South Korea” in World Christian Encyclopedia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
- “Mother of Transracial Adoption: Pearl Buck’s Special Needs Adoption and American Self-Criticism,” Studies in World Christianity (December 2019).
- “The Christian History of Korean American Adoption,” Christianity Today (October 2019).
- “Japan” in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.
- “Ministry to Children in Asia” in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.
- “Missiology of Pearl S. Buck.” International Bulletin of Mission Research (April 2017).
- “Transnational Adoption: A Noble Cause? Female Missionaries as Pioneers of Transnational Adoption, 1945-1965.” Evangelical Missions Quarterly (October 2016).