The Reverend Dr. Choi, Hee An joined the School of Theology in 2003. Dr. Choi\u2019s research and teaching focus on practical theology, gender and cultural studies, leadership, and postcolonial studies.<\/p>\n
Her most recent book, A Postcolonial Relationship: Challenges of Asian Immigrants as the Third Other<\/em> (State University of New York Press, 2022), critically examines the problems of current US relations from an Asian immigrant perspective and provides a new understanding of the complications that Asian immigrant group experience as the \u201cthird other.\u201d She dismantles Black\/white and native\/alien binary concepts from the position of Asian immigrant perspective and explores the deeper understandings of postcolonial relationships that Asian immigrants face. This book addresses the current structure of sociopolitical binary paradigm, investigates the unique challenges of Asian immigrant positions, analyzes the reality of their third otherness, and explores the possibilities of transforming binary relationships into postcolonial relationships based on ethical and theological religious traditions and practices in an Asian immigrant context.<\/span><\/p>\n She is the author of A Postcolonial Leadership: Asian Immigrant Christian Leadership and Its Challenges<\/em> <\/a>(State University of New York Press, 2020) that explores how Asian immigrant leaders, including Christian leaders, exercise leadership and confront challenges in the United States. She is also the author of A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(State University of New York Press, 2015) and Korean Women and God: Experiencing God in a Multi-religious Colonial Context<\/em><\/a> (2005, Orbis). With Katheryn Pfisterer Darr, she is also the co-editor of Engaging the Bible-Critical Reading from Contemporary Women<\/em><\/a> (2006, Fortress)<\/span>.<\/p>\n Dr. Choi has conducted many research projects such as Women and Leadership, Female Clergy Spiritual Growth, Immigrant Church and Women, Women\u2019s Retention Study II, United Methodist Salary Study, Multicultural Pedagogy, and others. She has developed several educational and spiritual programs to support clergy, lay leaders, and seminarians for multicultural\/immigrant church ministry. Her current teaching is deeply involved with leadership, postcolonial theology, immigrant policy, gender, and cultural studies. As an ordained minister in the PCUSA, she has actively engaged with the Korean immigrant church and ministry as well. Dr. Choi has served as Faculty-in-Residence and received the Boston University Residence Life\u2019s Award for Outstanding Service in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n A Postcolonial Relationship: Challenges of Asian Immigrants as the Third Other<\/em>, State University of New York Press, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n A Postcolonial Leadership: Asian Immigrant Christian Leadership and Its Challenges<\/i>, New York: State University of New York Press, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church<\/em>, New York: State University of New York Press, 2015<\/p>\n Engaging the Bible: Critical Readings from Contemporary Women<\/em>. Choi Hee An and Kathe Darr eds., Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006 Korean Women and God: Experiencing God in a Multi-Religious Colonial Context<\/em>. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2005<\/p>\n \u201cTo Mask or To Unmask, That is the Question: Facemasks and Anti-Asian Violence During COVID-19,\u201d co-authored with Eun-Kyoung Othelia Lee. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work<\/em>, 2021<\/p>\n \u201cChallenges of Korean Immigrant Leadership in the Church,\u201d International Journal of Practical Theology<\/i> Fall 2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cRelational Spirituality, Mature Alterity, and Spiritual Service among Ministry Leaders: An Empirical Study,\u201d co-authored with Steven Sandage, Amy West, and Chance Austin Bell, Pastoral Psychology<\/i> April 2019, Vol. 69, Issue 2, 127-142<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNot everyone is a leader, but everyone can be a leader together,\u201d Focus, <\/i>Boston University School of Theology, <\/i>2018<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cJourneying with Clergy Women Relational Spirituality, Mature Alterity, and Spiritual Service among Ministry Leaders: An Empirical Study:\u00a0 Exploring Self-Care in Community,\u201d Co-authored by with Susan Hassinger, and Carole Bohn. Wellsprings<\/i>, GBHEM, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFaith-Based Community Support for Korean American Older Adults,\u201d co-authors by Choi Hee An and Eun-Kyoung Othelia Lee, in Social Work and Christianity: An International Journal<\/em>, Volume 40, Number 4, 2013<\/p>\n \u201cEast Asia Literature Korea,\u201d in the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception<\/em>. Herausgeber: Hans-Josef Klauck, Volker Leppin, Bernard McGinn, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric J. Ziolkowski eds., Volume 7, Berlin, Boston: The Publishing House Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. De Gruyter, 2013<\/p>\n \u201cSixth Sunday of Easter,\u201d in Preaching God\u2019s Transforming Justice-A Lectionary Commentary, Year B Featuring 22 New Holy Days For Justice.<\/em> Ronald J Allen, Dale P. Andrews, and Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm eds, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2013<\/p>\n \u201cSixth Sunday of Easter,\u201d in Preaching God\u2019s Transforming Justice-A Lectionary Commentary, Year A Featuring 22 New Holy Days For Justice.<\/em> Ronald J Allen, Dale P. Andrews, and Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm eds, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012<\/p>\n \u201cSixth Sunday of Easter,\u201d in Preaching God\u2019s Transforming Justice-A Lectionary Commentary, Year C Featuring 22 New Holy Days For Justice.<\/em> Ronald J Allen, Dale P. Andrews, and Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm eds, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011<\/p>\n \u201cGender, Culture, and the Bible,\u201d in People\u2019s Bible<\/em>, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, Forthcoming Spring 2008<\/p>\n \u201cThe Church and Immigration,\u201d The Progressive Christian<\/em>, September\/October 2008 Issue<\/p>\n \u201cTheology and the Bible,\u201d in Chalice Introduction to Theology<\/em>, St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, Spring 2008<\/p>\n \u201cRe-Imagining Theological Reflection on God From the Context of Korean Women\u201d Feminist Theology<\/em>, Vol. 16, Issue 3, May 2008, Sage Publications.<\/p>\n \u201cMinjung Theology,\u201d in The Hope of Liberation in World Religions<\/em>, Texas: Baylor University Press, Spring 2008<\/p>\n \u201cTransforming Power in the Lives of Women as Surrogates: The Dialogue Between African American and Korean Christian Women,\u201d New York: Union Theological Seminary Quarterly Review, October 2004<\/p>\n Interviewed by The Boston Globe (Rich Barlow), \u201cWhere Faith and Gender Intersect\u201d April 9, 2005<\/p>\n Editor, Anna Howard Shaw Center Newsletter<\/em>, Boston University School of Theology, 2003-present<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[20],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49142,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1373\/revisions\/49142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Publications<\/h2>\n
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