Heesung Hwang

Professor Hwang’s research interests include: Christian education, developmental theories, identity formation, congregational studies, critical pedagogy, critical race theory and postcolonial feminist theology. Professor Hwang’s research currently focuses on the multiculturally interdependent world and the role of arts as an educational approach. She has spent a significant amount of her religious educational career engaging in Korean American congregations as a children’s pastor and an ordained deacon in the United Methodist Church.

“A primary learning goal for me as a teacher is to assist students to practice collaborative experiments embracing each other’s different sociopolitical or theological viewpoints. In my class, they can experience what it means to be inclusive, tolerant, creative, and transformative as ministers, educators, and activists. Creating such an educational place is a holy work. By helping students to experience constructive and inclusive approaches in theological education, a teacher empowers them to engage the various social and cultural settings students will encounter in ministry.”