Young Lee-Hertig is co-founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity in Castro Valley, Calif., which fosters research into Asian-American religion, including that of Koreans.

Antony W. Alumkal is an assistant professor of sociology of religion at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver and author of Asian American Evangelical Churches: Race, Ethnicity and Assimilation in the Second Generation (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2003).

Elizabeth Underwood is associate professor of sociology at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, and author of Challenged Identities: North American Missionaries in Korea, 1884-1934 (Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, 2004).

Paul Chang-Ha Lim is assistant professor of the history of Christianity at the Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tenn.

Jung Ha Kim is a senior lecturer in sociology at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is author of Bridge-Makers and Cross-Bearers: Korean American Women and the Church (Scholars Press, 1997), co-author of Singing the Lord’s Song in a New Land: Korean American Practices of Faith (Westminster John Knox Press, 2005) and co-editor of Religions in Asian America: Building Faith […]

Elaine Howard Ecklund directs the religion and public life program at Rice University, where she is also a professor of sociology. She is the author of Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life.

David Kyuman Kim is an assistant professor of religious studies at Connecticut College in New London, Conn., and director of the college’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

S. Steve Kang is associate professor of educational ministries at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass., and co-editor of Growing Healthy Asian American Churches (IVP, 2006).

See “The Tiger in the Academy,” an April 2006 Christianity Today article about the growth of Asian-American campus ministries.