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Biography

Nami Kim, Ph.D., has been a Faculty Member Since 2004 and is a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Dr. Kim has been selected as the 2025-2026 Ewha Global Fellow (EGF) of Ewha Womans University. The fellowship is awarded to distinguished scholars from around the world to collaborate with faculty members at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea, on research and education. Ewha Womans University was founded in 1886 with the mission to educate and empower women, and has since grown into one of the largest research universities for women in the world. 

Education

• Th.D., Harvard University, The Divinity School, Cambridge, MA

• M.Div., Emory University, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, GA | magna cum laude

• M.A., B.A., Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea

Courses Taught

• REL 111 – Introduction to the Study of Religion

• REL 112 – Women and Religion                             

• REL 270 – Introduction to Eastern Religious Traditions

• REL 278 – Women in Eastern Religious Traditions

• REL 285 – Religion, Women, and Violence in Global Perspective

• REL 318 – Religion and Sexuality: A Survey

• REL 370 – Women and Religious Fundamentalism

• REL 380 – Theory and Methods in Religious Studies

• REL 440 - Women and Religious Fundamentalism,

• REL 480 – Senior Project

• REL/PHI 395/6 – Colloquium

• IBQC- First-Year Colloquia – Religion and Sexuality

• FYE – First-Year Experience Seminar

Research Interests

Dr. Kim’s research interests meet at the intersections of feminist theory, Asian and Asian Pacific North American religious/theological studies, transnational studies, and world Christianity.

Select Publications

Books (monograph and co-edited)

• Crossing Shores and Horizons: Asian and Asian American Transnational Feminist Theologies, ed. with Boyung Lee, Kristine Chong, and Laura Mariko Cheifetz. Westminster John Knox (forthcoming).

• The Myth of “Us/We”: Racism and Christianity in South Korea, ed. with Min-ah Cho and Jin-ho Kim. Dongyoun, 2025. (This book is written in Korean)

• Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism, ed. with Wonhee Anne Joh. Lexington, 2019.

• The Gendered Politics of the Korean Protestant Right: Hegemonic Masculinity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

• Critical Theology against U.S. Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization, ed. with Wonhee Anne Joh, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Articles and Book Chapters (selected)

• "Might This Be the Time to Broaden the Reach of Feminist Theology?” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 41, no. 2 (2025): 129-131.

• “Shattering the Male (Clergy) Bonding.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Vol. 40 No. 2 (Fall 2024): 85-89.

• “The Confines of ‘Antiracism’ Work in the Intersectional Realities of ‘Anti-Asian’ Violence.” In Embodying Antiracist Christianity: Asian American Theological Resources for Just Racial Relations. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023.

• “Several ‘Women of Color’ Walked Out of the Room That Afternoon in Solidarity: Multiple Logics of White Supremacy.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 38. 1 (Spring 2022)

• “Reorienting Orientalism in Asian/American Theology: ‘Religion’, Christian Secularism, and Islamophobia.” In Theologies of the Multitudes for the Multitudes: The Legacy of Kwok Pui-lan. Ed. Rita Nakashima Brock and Tat-siong Benny Liew. Claremont Pression, 2021.

• “When the Minjung Events Erupt: Protests from Korea to Hong Kong.” In The Hong Kong Protests and Political Theology. Ed. Kwok Pui Lan and Francis Ching-Wah Yip. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.

• “Self-Reflexivity, Knowledge Production, and Cross-Racial Solidarity.” In Embodying Knowledge: Asian and Asian American Women’s Contributions to Theology and Religion. Ed. Kwok Pui Lan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

• “Carrying Out ‘The Great Commission’ until the ‘Second Coming of Christ’? Overseas Mission Currents in the Context of U.S. Military Imperialism.” In Colonialism and the Bible: Contemporary Reflections from the Global South. Ed. Tat-siong Benny Liew and Fernando F. Segovia, 151-168. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. 

• “Celebrating Feminist Birthdays: Bringing Filiative and Affiliative Together.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 27, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 123-127. 

• “A Mission to the ‘Graveyard of Empires’? Neocolonialism and Contemporary Evangelical Missions of the Global South.” Mission Studies 27, no. 1 (2010): 3-23.

• “The ‘Indigestible’ Asian: The Unifying Term ‘Asian’ in Theological Discourse.” In Off The Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women’s Religion and Theology, ed. Rita Nakashima Brock, Jung Ha Kim, Kwok Pui-lan, Seung Ai Yang, 23-43. Louisville, London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. 

• “My/Our Comfort Not at the Expense of Somebody Else’s: Toward a Critical Global Feminist Theology.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 21, no.2 (Fall 2005): 75-94. 

Grants, Fellowships, Workshops (selected)

• The Leadership Development of Asian/American Women in Theological and Religious Studies: Wabash Center (Co-facilitator), $30,000, September 2023-June 2024.

• “.” Project Grant for Researchers (a team member), Louisville Institute, $30,000, 2021-2022.

• “Sexual Violence in Asian American Ethnoreligious Communities.” (Co-leader), The Religion and Sexual Abuse Project and the Henry Luce Foundation, University of California-Riverside, $20,000, 2020-2024.