Dr. Haley Gabrielle
Dr. Haley Gabrielle is Assistant Professor of Religion at Greensboro College. She completed her B.A. in Classics at Kenyon College, her Master of Arts in Religion concentrated in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale Divinity School, and her Ph.D. in Religion (New Testament) at Emory University.
Dr. Gabrielle’s research focuses on reading the New Testament with attention to important modern issues including colonialism, racism, sexism, heterosexism, and anti-Judaism. Her social location as a biracial South Asian woman in diaspora informs the theory, histories, and literature that she draws on in her work. Her recent research has analyzed topics including ambiguous racialization, Orientalism, coalitional identity, and agency. Her writing can be found in the Journal of Biblical Literature (2023), the edited volume Race and Biblical Studies (2022), and Bible and Critical Theory (2020).
Dr. Heejun Yang
Dr. Heejun Yang is an assistant professor in religion, ethics, and philosophy at Greensboro College. He is also a (founding) adjunct professor in the religion department at Hampton University. Dr. Yang received his B.Th. from Methodist Theological University in Seoul, South Korea, and holds an M.Div. and a Th.M. from Duke University. He studied under Ingolf Dalferth as his last doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University and the University of Münster, where he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy of religion.
Dr. Yang has published several academic/public articles and two books: Trinitarian Responses to Worldliness: Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Inculturation (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022) and Asian Case Studies on Translating Christianity: Toward God’s Self-Communication and the Trinitarian End of Asian Theology (Lexington Books, 2024). His second book received the Racial/Ethnic Research Award from the General Commission on Archives and History of the UMC. He also has taught religion and theology at High Point University, Duke Divinity School, and Hampton University. He has a broad academic interest, including philosophy of religion, systematic theology, hermeneutical theology, Wesleyan theology, 19-20th century continental philosophy, post-Barthian theology, philosophy of language, Eastern religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Shamanism), world Christianity, theology of (im)migration, Asian American theology, and theological ethics.
Asian American Religion, Theology, and Culture 