Ki Joo Choi

Kyung-Chik Han Chair Professor of Asian American Theology

Ki Joo (KC) Choi’s research and teaching interests include Protestant and Catholic ethics/moral theology, the thought of Jonathan Edwards, art theory and theological aesthetics, peace studies, critical ethnic studies, nonprofit ethics, and Asian American theology. His publications include the monograph Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Problem of Asian American Identity (2019), the first sustained account of the racialized contours of Asian American life by a theologian. He is also the author of Art and Moral Change (2024), which challenges prevailing approaches to the relationship between aesthetics and ethics. He is coeditor of 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 freedom and nonviolence through the lens of Asian immigrant experience and settler colonial discourse. He has been interviewed by a number of media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Sojourners Magazine, HigherEdJobs, and NJ 101.5 FM.