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Shalon Park is a historian of Asian religions and transpacific Christianity from the sixteenth century to the present. As both a literary and religious historian, her research traces the literary and cultural histories of Asian Catholicism, Protestant missions, and Korean Christianity. Her current book project, Christian Vernaculars, explores eighteenth-century Korean Catholic confessional discourse within the broader context of global Asia. The book highlights how women’s vernacular writing and embodied devotional practices shaped the linguistic and theological contours of Korean Catholicism. Park earned her PhD in World Christianity and the History of Religions at Princeton Theological Seminary and subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship in Korean Religions at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia in Italy.
Forthcoming, “Care Under Empire: Catholic Orphanages and Colonial Welfare in Korea, 1888–1945,” The Seoul Journal of Korean Studies.
“Translating Confessions: Korean Vernacular Voicing of the Penitent Self.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 59, no. 3 (2024): 401–415.https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935550
“The Politics of Impeaching Shamanism: Regulating Religions in the Korean Public Sphere.” Journal of Church and State, Volume 60, Issue 4, Autumn 2018, Pages 636–660, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csx078
History of Christianity in Asia – WCCH2104
Interfaith Dialogue – WCCH2105
2025–2027 Grant holder, Academy of Korean Studies Fellowship Program for Korean Studies (Project title: “Sewing Independence: How Korean Nuns Shaped Social Welfare in Colonial Korea.”)
2023–2025 Grant holder, PRIN Project, Italian Ministry for Universities and Research: Making Korea a Religiously Plural Society? Historical, Legal, and Social Approaches (Grant No. 2022S23SZZ; CUP H53D23000310001)
2021–2022 Junior Fellow, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea
