Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Director of The Gould Center of Humanities at Claremont McKenna College
Bio
Esther Chung-Kim is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Director of The Gould Center of Humanities at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Since her Ph.D. from Duke University, she has focused her research on the problem of authority, biblical interpretation during the Reformation, and poor relief reform. She has published Inventing Authority: Use of the Church Fathers in Reformation Debates over the Eucharist (2011), Reformation Commentary on Scripture: Acts (2014) and several articles related to poverty, wealth, and social change. Her upcoming book, Economics of Faith: Reforming Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe will be coming out in June 2021.