Girim Jung

Professor Girim Jung outside

Ph.D. in Religion: Comparative Theology/Philosophy, 2019
Dissertation: Decolonizing Comparative Theology: Grounding Liberative Asian American Spiritualities Through Archipelagic Thinking; Committee: Monica A. Coleman, Philip Clayton, Jane N. Iwamura
Claremont School of Theology

M.A. in Religion, 2019
Claremont School of Theology

M.Div., 2014
Yale University Divinity School

B.A., Philosophy and Religion (cum laude), 2011
Rutgers University

Dr. Jung specializes in Comparative Religion and Comparative Philosophy with a particular focus on East Asian Buddhism, Black Atlantic traditions, and Decolonial Thought. His doctoral research focused on the archipelagic thinking to decolonize comparative religious and cultural studies by taking a transoceanic approach linking the Black Atlantic to the Asia Pacific. It also looked at Black and Asian political solidarities and the resonances between Black Atlantic thought and Huayan Buddhist philosophy.

Dr. Jung’s current research examines the intersections of techno orientalism, Asian American religions, and decolonial praxis resisting commodification and subjectivation in contemporary films, prose, and performances.

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