Current Doctoral Students and their Research Interests

P V Joseph (India)

Septemmy Lakawa (Indonesia): Mission in the aftermath of religious violence in Indonesia

John Kaoma (Zambia)

Sunhee Kim (Korea)

Vincent Machozi (Congo)

Shandi Mawokomatanda (Zimbabwe): Ecclesiology and Ethics; The evolving role and vision of the United Methodist Church in Zimbabwe; Religious peacebuilding; Spiritual trauma healing in Africa

Travis Myers (USA): A trinitarian, Christo-centric, biblical theology of missions, including theologies of culture, non-Christian religions, and contextualization; The history of Reformation, Puritan and Calvinist/Reformed missions, especially in comparison with Moravian spirituality and methods; The relation between globalization and the cross-cultural expansion of Christianity, especially in Africa

Ruth Padilla DeBorst (Argentina, Costa Rica)

David Scott (USA): Christianity in Southeast Asia; Christianity among the overseas Chinese;
History of Methodist missions

Anneke Stasson (USA): History of women and the family in mission; Development of the "Missiology of the Christian Home;" Walter and Ingrid Trobisch

Douglas Tzan (USA)

Kirk Van Gilder (USA)

Lisa Beth White (USA): Short term mission in the United Methodist Church

Doctoral Dissertations in Progress

Kenaleone Ketshabile (South Africa): Comparative Study of Burial Rites among AICs and Methodists in Mofokeng, South Africa

Yeonseung Lee (Korea): "The Nexus of Nationalism and Internationalism, The YMCA and Yun Chi-ho in Colonial Korea" is the title of my dissertation and it addresses the contributions of the YMCA to nation building. The entire study hinges on the analysis of its pivotal figure, Yun Chi-ho. This study attempts to reclaim the national as well as ecclesial history of Korea, while also rehabilitating Yun Chi-ho, whose work spanned the entire colonial period and was intertwined with both national and mission histories.

Gift Makwasha (Zimbabwe): Not Without My Ancestors: Ancestrology and the Quest for an African Initiated Christology: A Case Study of the Shona People of Zimbabwe

Bilal Ozaslan (Turkey): A Study of the Writings of Educational Missionaries in Turkey and the Near East

Gary Van der Pol (USA): Lazarus at the Gate:  American Evangelical Mission to the Poor 1945-2005

Doctoral Program Graduates (Since 1990)

K. U. Abraham, Rt. Rev. Dr. Abraham Mar Paulos Episcopa, Mar Thoma Church, India

Daniel Chan, Pastor, Chinese Evangelical Church, Boston

Shawn Daggett, Associate Professor, Harding University

Richard Darr, Pastor, Minooka United Methodist Church, Minooka, IL

Ian Douglas, Professor of Mission and World Christianity, Episcopal Divinity School

Casely Essamuah, Compassionate Outreach Pastor, Bay Area Community Church, Annapolis, MD

Charles Farhadian, Assistant Professor of World Religions, Westmont College

William Francis, Head of Salvation Army, New York City

Jinhwan Han, Professor of Preaching and Worship, President of Korea Theological Seminary

Benjamin Hartley, Visiting Assistant Professor of Christian Mission, Palmer Theological Seminary

John Sungchul Hong, Professor of Evangelism in the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism, Asbury Theological Seminary

Mi Soon Im, Adjunct Professor, Memphis Theological Seminary

Seung Joong Joo, Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship, Dean of Graduate School of Ministry, Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea

Alderi Matos, Coordinator of Church History Department, Andrew Jumper Presbyterian Graduate Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Official historian of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil

Grace May, Pastor, Chinese Christian Church of New England

Olu Q. Menjay, Principal of the Ricks Institute, Monrovia, Liberia

Daniel M’Mutungi, Director of Continuing Education, Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya

Kendal P. Mobley, Senior Pastor, Enon Baptist Church, Salisbury, NC

Samuel Muturi, Director of Pastoral Studies, Berea Theological College, Nakuru, Kenya

Sung Deuk Oak, Visiting Assistant Professor in Korean Christianity, UCLA-Berkeley

Myung Soo Park, Professor of Church History and Director of the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church Historical Research Center, Seoul Theological University

Philip Pitya, Vicar, St. Gregory the Great Roman Catholic Church, Danbury, Connecticut. USA Mission Representative for the Archdiocese of Juba, Diocese of Yei, Sacred Heart Sisters, and Diocese of Wau, Sudan

Titus Presler, Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Professor of Mission and World Christianity, General Theological Seminary, New York City

David Restrick, Academic Dean and Professor, Nazarene Seminary, Mozambique

Heigo Ritsbeck, Dean, Charismatic Episcopal Church, Estonia

Ruben Rivera, Assistant Professor of History, Bethel University

Rady Roldan-Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, Baylor University

Angel Santiago-Vendrell, Assistant Professor of Evangelism and Missions, Memphis Theological Seminary

Mary Lou Shea, Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of the DeFreitas Mission Program, Eastern Nazarene College

James M. Singleton, Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mark Stamm, Assistant Professor of Worship, Perkins Theological Seminary

Alex Thomas, Professor of History of Christianity, Mar Thoma Theological Seminary, Kottayam, India

Zhongxin Wang, President of Chinese Christian Scholars’ Association

Chong-Gyiau Wong, Chair of the Dept of Philosophy and Religion, Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan

Kevin Xiyi Yao, Assistant Professor of Church History, China Graduate School of Theology, Hong Kong