＜Presenters / 報告者＞

Helen Jin Kim（ヘレン・ジン・キム）

Dr. Helen Jin Kim is an assistant professor at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is a historian who studies American history and religion in global context. She is currently writing a book titled Transpacific Piety and Politics: Cold War South Korea and the Rise of Modern American Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, under contract). She uses English and Korean language sources from U.S. and South Korean archives, tracing linkages between the rise of world Christianity, race and the global Cold War, and modern American evangelicalism. She is also co-authoring a book on contemporary American religious "nones" titled Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Kim is a member of the American Society of Church History, the Association for Asian American Studies, and the American Academy of Religion. She is the first Asian American woman and faculty of Korean descent to be appointed at Candler.

Kim completed her MDiv and PhD at Harvard as a William R. Hutchison Presidential Fellow. Her research began at Stanford in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and with the Asian Pacific American Religion and Research Initiative (APARRI). Prior to graduate studies, Kim worked at Google, Inc.

See more at: https://candler.emory.edu/faculty/profiles/kim-helen.html

Lauren Turek（ローレン・トゥレック）

Lauren Turek is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Trinity University. She earned her doctorate in history from the University of Virginia in 2015, and holds a degree in museum studies from New York University as well as a degree in history from Vassar College. A specialist in U.S. diplomatic history and American religious history, Turek’s current book project examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assessing the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes and to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that persecuted Christians and stifled evangelism. She has received grants to fund her international research from the American Historical Association and the Society for Historians of American foreign relations, among others. In addition, Turek has a background in public history and has developed exhibitions at a number of museums, historic sites, and cultural institutions.

See more at: https://inside.trinity.edu/directory/lturek

竹内愛子（たけうち・あいこ Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci）

Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci is a lecturer in the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University and a visiting scholar at Waseda University. Her research and teaching interests focus on transnationalism, cultural diplomacy, gender politics, and race relations. Her publications include: Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018); “Delivering an American Dream: Japanese Birth Tourism in Hawaii,” Georgian Journal of American Studies 7 (2018); “Birth Control and Socialism: The Frustration of Margaret Sanger and Ishimoto Shizue’s Mission,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 17, n. 3 (2010).

西岡みなみ（にしおか・みなみ Minami Nishioka）

Minami Nishioka is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tennessee. Her interest lies in U.S. imperialism, Protestant missionaries, and U.S.-Japan relations. Her dissertation, “Civilizing Okinawa: Intimacies between the American and Japanese Empires, 1846-1919,”explores inter-imperial relations between the emerging U.S. and Japanese empires by examining Japanese and American Protestant missions in Okinawa. She published her article 「チャールズ・フィニーに見る神学と奴隷制廃止運動の連関」 (Charles Finney' Theology and His Position on Abolitionism) in Pacific and American Studies in 2014. From 2019 to 2020, she will conduct archival research in Japan with the support from the Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship.

相川裕亮（あいかわ・ゆうすけ Yusuka Aikawa）

Yusuke Aikawa is a research associate at Keio University. He is academically specialized in the relationship between Christianity and American politics. Notably, he is interested in the well-known American Evangelist Billy Graham and his influences. Aikawa’s recent publication is「大統領の会堂と法廷 : 福音伝道者ビリー・グラハムと大統領リチャード・ニクソンの関係を再考する」『法學政治學論究』116号（2018年）（The President's Chapel and the President's Court: Reconsidering the Relationship between Evangelist Billy Graham and President Richard Nixon）.

＜Discussants / コメンテーター＞

上村直樹（かみむら・なおき Naoki Kamimura）

Naoki Kamimura is Professor of American studies and international relations at Nanzan University. He received his Ph.D. in US diplomatic history from UCLA. He was a visiting MacArthur fellow at SAIS, the Johns Hopkins University (1989-91), visiting fellow at Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, La Paz, Bolivia (1990), visiting fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, the Australian National University (2000, 2006), visiting fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies, the Victoria University of Wellington (2000, 2006), and visiting scholar at the Reischauer Institute, Harvard University (2000-2001). He specializes in US foreign relations, particularly relations with Japan, Australia and New Zealand as well as Latin America. He has written extensively on the security politics of the US alliance, focusing on civil society and nuclear disarmament in America’s Pacific allies, as well as US policy toward Latin America’s revolutionary regimes, specifically Bolivia’s. His publications on these two topics include: “Japanese Civil Society and U.S.-Japan Security Relations in the 1990s,” Medicine & Global Survival, 7-1 (April 2001); “Nuclear Disarmament Policies of Australia and New Zealand,” ed. by Wade Huntley, Mitsuru Kurosawa, et al., Nuclear Disarmament in the Twenty-first Century (Hiroshima: Hiroshima Peace Institute, 2004); “Alliance and Nuclear Disarmament: The U.S. Alliance and Civil Society in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan,” International Relations [JAIR], 163 (January 2011) (in Japanese); “‘Liberal” America and Bolivia’s Revolutionary Challenge, 1952-1960: An Interpretation in a Comparative Framework,” The Japanese Journal of American Studies, 28 (June 2017); Revolution and American Foreign Policy: Bolivia’s Revolutionary Challenge to Liberal America, 1943-1964 (Tokyo: Yushindo, 2019) (in Japanese).

佐藤清子（さとう・せいこ Seiko Sato）

Seiko Sato is a lecturer at Seijo University. She specializes in religious studies and history of religions in the United States. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2017. Her doctoral thesis titled「アンテベラム期合衆国プロテスタントの信教の自由概念―反カトリシズムとの関係から―」（2017 年、東京大学人文社会系研究科提出）(“Protestants’ understanding of Religious Liberty and Anti-Catholicism in the Antebellum United States”) was on anti-Catholicism and religious liberty in the antebellum United States. Her latest articles are titled, 「現代合衆国における歴史認識と信教の自由理解―キリスト教国論をめぐって―」『東京大学宗教学年報』第34号、2017年、45-60 頁。(“‘Christian Nation,’ History, and Religious Liberty in the 21st Century United States,” *Annual Review of Religious Studies* vol. 34, 2017, pp 45-60. 「アメリカの「伝統」の新たな挑戦――多様な宗教・非宗教の共存」 藤原聖子編『世俗化後のグローバル宗教事情』岩波書店、2018年、 244-258頁。(“A Religiously and Non-religiously Diverse America---Tradition Confronts New Challenges,” in Satoko Fujiwara ed., *Religions in the World after Secularization*, Iwanami Shoten, 2018, pp 244-258.) She is currently interested in historical development of religious liberty in the United States and the world.