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Dr.
Ki Joo (KC) Choi’s research and teaching interests include Protestant and Catholic moral theology and social ethics, the thought of Jonathan Edwards, theological aesthetics, peace studies, nonprofit ethics, and critical ethnic studies. His publications include the monograph Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Problem of Asian American Identity (2019), a groundbreaking book in Asian American theology that questions the possibilities of liberative agency in the face of racialization. He is also the author of Art and Moral Change (2024), which challenges prevailing approaches to the relationship between aesthetics and ethics through a novel Edwardsean-theological account of the emotions, affectivity, and virtue. He also coedited the volume Reimagining the Moral Life: On Lisa Sowle Cahill’s Contributions to Christian Ethics (2020) and is currently working on a political theology of nonviolence through the lens of Asian immigrant experience and discourses of belonging.
KC is an active member of the Society of Christian Ethics, having served on the Board of Directors and as co-convener of the Asian/Asian American Working Group. He currently serves as coeditor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. A graduate of Yale (B.A. and M.Div.) and Boston College (Ph.D., theological ethics), he has been interviewed by a number of media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Sojourners Magazine, HigherEdJobs, and NJ 101.5 FM.
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