Research
The research agenda of the Center for Global Christianity is driven by the interests of the people who are part of its community. Reports about their ongoing work will be posted from time to time.
HDS Yang Visiting Scholars in World Christianity Now Accepting Applications for 2026-27
“Apply to the Yang Visiting Scholars Program in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School! Click here to see the full PDF Please note the following description and eligibility requirements: Responsibilities Each visiting scholar teaches one course (either in the fall or in the spring semester) and presents their research in a public lecture, panel discussion, or events during their time at HDS. Yang Visiting Scholars are required to be in full-time residence at Harvard Divinity School while carrying out their proposed research projects and while teaching their course. Any publication and/or research resulting from the stay at Harvard Divinity School must be credited to... More
2025 ASCH Research Fellowships Winner
We’re thrilled to share that the 2025 American Society of Church History Research Fellowship has been awarded to Dr. Gina Zurlo (’17)! Her project explores "Irruption Within the Irruption: A Women’s History of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, 1976–2000." With a cash value of $1000, this competitive and prestigious award was adjudicated by ASCH's Graduate Students and Independent Scholars Awards Committee, chaired this year by Prof. Elizabeth Jemison.
Russian Methodism
During the early twentieth century until the Japanese invasion of 1931, Harbin, Manchuria, was a crossroads for migrants, including Koreans, mixed-race North Asian populations, and Russians fleeing the Russian Revolution. In that challenging context, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, opened missions to the different refugee populations in Harbin. In 1927 the mission to Russian refugees closed. Russians fled the area, desperately migrating to whatever country would take them in. In a video recorded lecture, Dana Robert reconstructs the memories of the Russian Methodist pastors of 1920s Harbin, in dialogue with her own search since the 1970s to uncover their history. This... More
The Korean Church of Boston 70th Anniversary Symposium
The Korean Church of Boston (PCUSA) looks back on the past as we welcome our 70th anniversary in 2023 as an immigrant church planted in the United States, and we thank God for God's great love bestowed upon us. Therefore, we have prepared events to commemorate our 70th anniversary under the title "Gratitude," and a meaningful symposium as below: Two Tales of a City upon a Hill: - Unlocking the Past for a Better Future Together: Stories of Native Americans & Korean American Churches 2023. 4.24-26 The Korean Church of Boston (PCUSA) 32 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02445 Dr. Eunil David Cho, a CGCM faculty affiliate, will be speaking. More... More
EAST-WEST SCHOLARS IN DIALOGUE: Ricci Institute Research Seminar Series
The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College presents two research seminars in February 2023, which will be delivered by the two Luce postdoctoral fellows in residence during the spring semester. Based on different historical studies, the two presentations will offer an opportunity for academic exchange among scholars today who are interested in the study of the history of Christianity in China and in the larger historical context of modern global history. The seminars are free and open to faculty and students at Boston College, and all interested scholars from other institutions. More details here...