Yeonseung Lee

Yeonseung Lee currently investigates the intersection of Western missionary literature and the trajectory of Korean Studies. The National Research Foundation of Korea in conjunction with the Ministry of Education has granted the Emerging Scholar Research Fund for this three-year project since 2021. The research findings will come out as a book adding to her numerous publications illuminating the crossroads of Christianity and civic diplomacy in colonial Korea, land reform in post-liberation Korea, and the overseas Korean movement for Christianity in North Korea, etc.

She has presented papers at the Yale-Edinburgh Meeting, Humboldt-Boston University’s Conference, the American Society of Church History, and the American Society of Missiology etc. She teaches church history and theology at Boston Nehemiah Institute, ReNew (Boston KOSTA), and Central Baptist Theological Seminary as the latter’s church history department coordinator.

The current research and teaching develop her specialties accumulated as a Visiting Professor at Seoul Theological University, Hanse University, Pyongtaek University, and Torch Trinity Graduate University in Korea. While at Seoul Theological University, she founded the first international Journal of that university, World Christianity and the Fourfold Gospel as its managing editor. A former missionary to St. Petersburg, Russia, she continues her cross-cultural engagements as an ordained minister of Korean immigrant churches in Boston. She holds BA (Seoul National University), MDiv (Seoul Theological University), STM, and ThD (Boston University).

Attached is her CV.