Members
Michael Sepidoza Campos, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Studies: Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Studies
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
Master of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Michael Sepidoza Campos researches at the intersection of Filipino-American diaspora, postcolonial theory, queer theory, and critical pedagogy. His writings on queer life and religion include, 'Embracing the Stranger: Reflections on the Ambivalent Hospitality of LGBTIQ Catholics' in More Than A Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church - Inquiry, Thought, and Expression (Fordham University Press, 2014); 'The Baklâ: Gendered Religious Performance in Filipino Cultural Spaces' in Queer Religion: LGBT Movements and Queering Religion (Praeger, 2012); and 'In God's House: Of Silences and Belonging," in Theology and Sexuality, vol. 17.3 (Equinox, 2011). Campos co-edited Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) with Hugo Córdova Quero and Joseph N. Goh. He served as steering committee co-chair for the Asian, North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group at the American Academy of Religion. Dr. Campos can be reached at mcampos@eqars.org.
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
Master of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Michael Sepidoza Campos researches at the intersection of Filipino-American diaspora, postcolonial theory, queer theory, and critical pedagogy. His writings on queer life and religion include, 'Embracing the Stranger: Reflections on the Ambivalent Hospitality of LGBTIQ Catholics' in More Than A Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church - Inquiry, Thought, and Expression (Fordham University Press, 2014); 'The Baklâ: Gendered Religious Performance in Filipino Cultural Spaces' in Queer Religion: LGBT Movements and Queering Religion (Praeger, 2012); and 'In God's House: Of Silences and Belonging," in Theology and Sexuality, vol. 17.3 (Equinox, 2011). Campos co-edited Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) with Hugo Córdova Quero and Joseph N. Goh. He served as steering committee co-chair for the Asian, North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group at the American Academy of Religion. Dr. Campos can be reached at mcampos@eqars.org.
The Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.
The Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. He holds a Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. from Yale College. Patrick is an ordained minister with the Metropolitan Community Churches and a contributor to the religion section of the Huffington Post. For more information about Patrick, please see his website at http://www.patrickcheng.net. He can be reached at pcheng@eqars.org.
Rev. Dr Joseph N. Goh
Joseph N. Goh is a lecturer in gender and sexuality studies at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. He holds a PhD in gender, sexuality and theology, and his research interests include queer and LGBTI studies, human rights and sexual health issues, and diverse theological and religious studies. Goh is the co-editor of Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia (2014), and his work has appeared in journals such as Theology & Sexuality, Dialog and Sexualities. His personal weblog isat http://josephgoh.org.
The Rev. Elizabeth Leung, Ph.D.
The Rev. Elizabeth Leung holds a Ph.D. in Christian Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, CA. Having served as the Coordinating Minister for the Asian Pacific Islander Project at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry in Pacific School of Religion, Elizabeth engages in analysis of cultural discourses and ethnographical explorations at the intersection of cultures, religion and sexualities. She teaches courses in Christian mysticism, sexuality and Christian spiritualities, LGBT religious concerns in postcolonial perspectives, and has published in the Belgian journal, Studies in Spirituality. Elizabeth is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, and a trained spiritual director. Elizabeth can be reached at e.leung@eqars.org.
The Rev. Miak Siew
The Rev. Miak Siew holds an M.Div. from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. He is from Singapore and he has been involved in the LGBT rights movement there as a member of People Like Us, the Singapore gay and lesbian group focused on advocacy and public education, as well as a member on the council of Free Community Church, the only gay-affirming church in Singapore. He plans to further return to Singapore to engage in the areas where politics, religion and sexuality intersect. Rev. Siew can be reached at msiew@eqars.org.
Yuenmei Wong
Master of Arts (Women’s Studies), University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A., 2012.
Master of Arts (Communication), Science University of Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia., 2001.
Bachelor of Communication (Honour), Science University of Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, 1998.
Yuenmei Wong, a queer feminist scholar, born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is currently undertaking doctoral research at the Department of Women’s Studies in College Park Maryland as a Fulbright fellow. Her research interests include postcolonial feminisms, transnational Queer politics, sexuality, Islam, digital technologies and the emerging networked societies in Asia. Prior to coming to Maryland, she had taught courses on gender and politics in the Gender Studies Program at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She designed and taught the first course on Gender and Sexuality, and was a consultant to the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development in Malaysia. She was instrumental in changing a potentially pathological framing of the study of “homosexuals” to a rights-based approach, detailing various forms of discriminations faced by people of nonheteronormative sexuality in Malaysia. Her current research and writings focus on Muslim Queers and Sharia, homonationalism of the United States, neoliberal sexual politics and digital cultures.
Master of Arts (Communication), Science University of Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia., 2001.
Bachelor of Communication (Honour), Science University of Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, 1998.
Yuenmei Wong, a queer feminist scholar, born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is currently undertaking doctoral research at the Department of Women’s Studies in College Park Maryland as a Fulbright fellow. Her research interests include postcolonial feminisms, transnational Queer politics, sexuality, Islam, digital technologies and the emerging networked societies in Asia. Prior to coming to Maryland, she had taught courses on gender and politics in the Gender Studies Program at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She designed and taught the first course on Gender and Sexuality, and was a consultant to the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development in Malaysia. She was instrumental in changing a potentially pathological framing of the study of “homosexuals” to a rights-based approach, detailing various forms of discriminations faced by people of nonheteronormative sexuality in Malaysia. Her current research and writings focus on Muslim Queers and Sharia, homonationalism of the United States, neoliberal sexual politics and digital cultures.
Lai-shan Yip
Master of Theological Studies, Certificate in Women's Studies in Religion, Certificate of Sexuality and Religion, Pacific School of Religion/Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry and Master of Social Work, Boston College, Boston, MA
Bachelor of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Lai-shan Yip is currently a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California. Her research interests maneuver between Christian sexual ethics, Confucianism, postcolonialism, queer theory, feminism and, cultural studies, hoping to advocate as an activist-scholar for social and sexual justice for all. Baptized at the post-Vatican II era, she has been involved in Catholic social justice ministry, feminist and social movements as well as human rights groups in Hong Kong before her graduate study in sexuality and queer studies at the GTU. With her activist passion, she has added a postcolonial critique on universal gay liberation discourse in her participation at an Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ religious roundtable at the Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley and her current support to the first LGBTQ Catholic group in Hong Kong. In a time when a lay Catholic theological voice in Hong Kong on LGBTQ issues is quite suppressed, she gradually joins those pioneers in breaking the silence as if a blossom in the wilderness.
Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry and Master of Social Work, Boston College, Boston, MA
Bachelor of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Lai-shan Yip is currently a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California. Her research interests maneuver between Christian sexual ethics, Confucianism, postcolonialism, queer theory, feminism and, cultural studies, hoping to advocate as an activist-scholar for social and sexual justice for all. Baptized at the post-Vatican II era, she has been involved in Catholic social justice ministry, feminist and social movements as well as human rights groups in Hong Kong before her graduate study in sexuality and queer studies at the GTU. With her activist passion, she has added a postcolonial critique on universal gay liberation discourse in her participation at an Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ religious roundtable at the Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley and her current support to the first LGBTQ Catholic group in Hong Kong. In a time when a lay Catholic theological voice in Hong Kong on LGBTQ issues is quite suppressed, she gradually joins those pioneers in breaking the silence as if a blossom in the wilderness.
JuneHee Yoon
JuneHee Yoon was born and raised in South Korea. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in the area of Christian Social Ethics at Drew University. In South Korea, she completed a B.A. from Yonsei University (Theology) and an M.A. from Ewha Woman’s University (Christian Studies-Ethics). After coming to the United States, she finished her M.Div. from Drew Theological School and her S.T.M. (Ethics) from Yale Divinity School, where her master’s thesis was entitled “Revisiting Christian Soteriology in the Liberation Process of Korean Christianity.” Her academic interests include the ways in which Christian social ethics provide interpretive tools for Asian American Christian communities to imagine a postcolonial, diasporic, queer, embodiment ethic, specifically regarding issues of sexuality, gender, and sexual orientation.
Dr. Hugo Córdova Quero
Dr. Hugo Córdova Quero holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the Graduate Theological Union, with major course work taken at the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley. Currently he is visiting researcher at the Ibero-American Institute at Sophia University in Tokyo, and adjunct faculty at Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union. His areas of research are queer theology, ethnic and migration studies, cultural studies, queer and gender theory, religion, and (post)colonial studies. He can be reached at hcquero@eqars.org.