Yeonseung Lee

Yeonseung Lee is working on two research projects. The first revolves around reconciliation and healing in the Korean peninsula checkered by divisions for 78 years. A score of Korean scholars across fields collaborates on this project, which will turn into a book by December 2023. The second, an individual project, examines the intersection of Western missionary literature and the trajectory of Korean Studies. The emerging scholar fund of the National Research Foundation of Korea has sponsored this multi-year project since 2021. This 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 North Korea, etc. Her research combines teaching church history and theology to students from East Asia and South Africa at Boston Nehemiah Institute, ReNew (Boston KOSTA), Haiti Institute of Mission Seminary, and Central Baptist Theological Seminary as the church history department coordinator of CBTS. The current research and teaching develop her work in Korea as a visiting professor at Seoul Theological Seminary, Hanse University, Pyongtaek University, and Torch Trinity Graduate University. While at Seoul Theological University, she founded as the managing editor, the first international Journal of that university, World Christianity and the Fourfold Gospel. A former missionary to St. Petersburg, Russia, she continues her cross-cultural mission in Boston as an ordained pastor of Korean immigrant churches. She holds BA (Seoul National University), MDiv (Seoul Theological University), STM, and ThD (Boston University). Attached is her CV.