Our first guest, Dr. Ki Joo Choi, is currently the Kyung-Chik Han Chair Professor of Asian American Theology at Princeton University.
Dr. Choi is the author of Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Problem of Asian American Identity, the first sustained account of the racialized contours of Asian American life by a theologian, published in 2019.
We discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced public perceptions of anti-Asian racism, the role of the church in promoting social and racial justice, and more.
Dr. Choi previously served as chair of the Department of Religion at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ, and as coordinator for the second-year university core program Christianity and Culture in Dialogue and the newly formed medical humanities minor there.
His teaching and research areas encompass Protestant and Catholic (ecumenical) moral theology, theological aesthetics, peace studies, race and identity, and Asian American theology. He is currently finishing a book tentatively titled Aesthetics and Theological Ethics Reexamined: Deliberation, Community and Discord, which brings to bear an Edwardsean account of the affections on questions of art and moral change.
He also was recently appointed co-editor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.
Bioethics in the Margins 