Duke Divinity School's Asian House of Studies and Duke University's Asian American and Diaspora Studies wil hold a brown bag panel discussion, "Christianity and Pan-Asian American Identity," featuring Dr. Rae Cho, Dr. Jung Choi, and Derek Uejo. Join us in our conversations around Asian American Christians, model minority myth, and Asian and Asian American biblical hermeneutics. This event is offered in a hybrid format, with the in-person group meeting in the York Room and the webcast requiring Zoom registration. To receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://tinyurl.com/christianitybrownbag

Dr. Rae Cho is a visiting instructor at Duke Divinity School. He earned his B.S and M.S. from M.I.T., M.B.A .from Stanford, and M.Div. and Th.D. from Duke Divinity School, with a doctoral dissertation on missiological formation of racialized Korean Christianity. He served as a lay leader in an Asian American church in Silicon Valley prior to Duke, and his scholarly interests include Asian American theology, critical race theory, post-colonialism, and Black theology.

Dr. Jung Choi is the senior director of the Wesleyan Formation Initiatives, a co-director of the Asian House of Studies, and a consulting faculty member at Duke Divinity School. She received her Th.D. and M.Div. from Harvard, an S.T.M. from Yale, and B.A. from Seoul National University. As a scholar-teacher trained in the New Testament and Early Christianity, she teaches and researches various topics, including Asian and Asian American biblical hermeneutics, feminist historiography, and religious experiences (both ancient and contemporary) with the lens of race, gender, and class.

Derek Uejo, born and raised in San Diego, Calif., graduated cum laude with a B.A. in political science from Biola University's Torrey Honors College in May 2019. In December 2019, he concluded a postgraduate fellowship with the John Jay Institute. Uejo has interned with a Washington, D.C. think tank and an Asian American San Diego city councilmember. He is currently pursuing his M.T.S. degree in New Testament and Theology & the Arts at Duke Divinity School, where he also works as a Christian Ethics teaching assistant for Dr. John Rose and a graduate program assistant for the Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program.