Sung-Deuk Oak

E-mail: oak@humnet.ucla.edu Phone: 310-206-8235 Office: Royce 234-A

Sung-Deuk Oak, Dongsoon Im and Mija Im Endowed Chair of Korean Christianity, joined the Department in 2005. His fields of expertise include the history of Korean Christianity and its East Asian and global connections, especially interactions between Christianity and Korean religious culture in the sociopolitical context. One of his monographs, The Making of Korean Christianity: Encounters of Protestantism with Korean Religions, 1876~1915, the first volume of the series of the Studies in World Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2013) was awarded the editor’s “book of the year” by Books and Culture in 2013. Recently he published The History of the Korean Bible Society, Volume III, 1945-2002 (in 2020) and A Historian’s Diary amidst the Decline of the Protestant Churches in Korea, 2016-2021 (in 2021), and is making seven-volume series of Sources of Modern Nursing in Korea, 1886~1945 and two volumes of Pictorial History of Modern Nursing in Korea, 1885-1945. For more information, please visit his home page: “Online Archives of Korean Christianity” [http://koreanchristianity.cdh.ucla.edu/].