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Helen Jin Kim is Assistant Professor of American religious history at Emory. Kim studies US religion and history in global context, focusing on US religious connections to Asia-Pacific, and transnational histories of Asian American religions. She is author of Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire (Oxford University Press, 2022), and co-author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans (Oxford University Press, 2019). Her next projects include the “prosperity gospel” in transpacific frame, and “religion” and the Asian American social movement. In 2020, Kim was awarded the Provost’s Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education, and the On Eagle’s Wings Excellence in Teaching Award. Kim completed her MDiv and PhD at Harvard as a William R. Hutchison Presidential Fellow, and her BA at Stanford in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.