About Me

Esther Chung-Kim is Professor of Religious Studies and formerly Department Chair of Religious Studies and Associate Director of The Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of Inventing Authority (2011), Reformation Commentary on Scripture: Acts (2014), and Economics of Faith (2021) as well as multiple articles and essays. She teaches courses on the History of World Christianity, Religion and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, European Reformation, Poverty, Wealth and Social Change, and Christianity and Politics in East Asia.

Her research focuses on the Renaissance and Reformation movements in the early modern Europe. Her publication topics include: 1) religious conflict; 2) poverty and social welfare; and 3) biblical interpretation in the early modern period. Currently, she is working on a project related to religion and medicine. 

(For more information, see my Faculty Profile, Research, and other Scholarly Interests.)

Contact Me: 

Through Email at echungkim@cmc.edu