Board Officers & Committee Chairs

  • Julius-Kei Kato

    Julius-Kei Kato

    President

    Professor, Department of Religious Studies

    King’s University College at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

  • Rev. Grace Song

    Rev. Grace Song

    Vice-President

    Chair of the Won Buddhist Studies Department, Won Institute of Graduate Studies

  • Carolyn Jones Medine

    Carolyn Jones Medine

    Past-President

    Professor, Religion, and Director, Institute for African American Studies at The University of Georgia

  • Mark Unno

    Mark Unno

    Secretary

    Professor and Department Head of Religious Studies, University of Oregon

  • Elizabeth Tyler

    Elizabeth Tyler

    Treasurer

    Associate Professor and Department Chair, Philosophy Department, McDaniel College

  • Kristin Largen

    Kristin Largen

    Co-Editor, Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies

    President, Wartburg Theological Seminary

  • Thomas Cattoi

    Thomas Cattoi

    Co-Editor, Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies

    William and Barbara Moran Chair in Early Christian Theology and Interreligious Relations, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome, Italy

  • Christina Atienza

    Christina Atienza

    Book Review Editor

    Leadership Councilor, Dominican Sisters of San Rafael

  • John Becker

    John Becker

    Newsletter Editor

    Faculty in Religious Studies, California State University Long Beach

  • Stephanie Wong

    Stephanie Wong

    Chair, Website and Social Media Committee

    Assistant Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University

At-Large Board Members

  • Trent Pomplun

    Trent Pomplun

    Associate Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame

  • Joseph Cheah

    Joseph Cheah

    Professor of Religious Studies and Theology, University of Saint Joseph

  • Victor Gabriel

    Victor Gabriel

    Retired Professor, University of the West, and Visiting Professor, Shakya Buddha University

  • Yohong Roh

    Yohong Roh

    Instructor of Religious Studies, Louisiana State University

  • Gloria Chien

    Gloria Chien

    Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Gonzaga University

International Advisors

  • Elizabeth Harris

    Elizabeth Harris

    Honorary Senior Research Fellow within the Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham (UK)

  • Kunihiko Terasawa

    Kunihiko Terasawa

    Associate Professor of Religion, Wartburg College, Iowa

Committee Members

  • Alaina Keller

    Alaina Keller

    Social Media and Website Committee Member

    Doctoral Student, Georgetown University

Committees

Executive Committee

Vice President: Grace Song

President: Julius-Kei Kato

Past President: Carolyn Jones Medine

Secretary: Mark Unno

Program Committee

Vice President: Grace Song, Chair

President: Julius-Kei Kato

Journal Co-Editors: Thomas Cattoi and Kristin Largen

Nomination Committee

President: Julius-Kei Kato, Chair

Vice President: Grace Song

Past President: Carolyn Jones Medine

Secretary: Mark Unno

Membership Committee

Elizabeth Tyler (as Treasurer), Co-Chair

Stephanie Wong (as Social Media chair), Co-Chair

Julius-Kei Kato (as president)

Grace Song (as vice-president)

Streng Book Award Committee

Mark Heim, Chair

Christina Atienza

Duane Bidwell

Julius-Kei Kato

Carolyn Jones Medine

Social Media and Website Committee

Stephanie Wong, Chair

Alaina Keller

Won-Jae Hur

Oral History and Archives Committee

Sandra Kunz, Chair

Mark Unno

Ruben Habito

Leo Lefebure

Judith Simmer-Brown