PhD/ICS Participants
Participants in the program enjoy mentoring relationships with faculty and peers. Participants and faculty have regular fellowship and play games such as volleyball together. Some are training together for the Chicago Marathon. During the past ten years, the PhD program in Intercultural Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Trinity International University has experienced an "astonishing rate of expansion" (International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27 (2003):99). There are currently over 60 participants matriculated into the program. A list of current TEDS PhD/ICS participants follows.
Participants Directory
Stages include: 1 - 1st year of coursework; 2 - 2nd year of coursework; 3 - proposal and comps writing stage; 4 - dissertation research/writing
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Olugbenga Akinbola 3 Nigeria
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Andrew Anane-Asane
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| Spirit reality in Contextual Theologizing in Ghanaian Pentecostalism | |
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Pedro Aviles 1 Chicago
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Ron Barber rbarber@yhb.att.ne.jp 4 Japan |
| Effectiveness of Short-Term missions from the perspective of the receivers | |
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Amit Bhatia 2 |
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Azariah Bhupanipad Sunk 3 India |
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Brad Bridges 1 Spain
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Jinsuk Byun Felipebyun@hotmail.com 4 Latin America, Korea |
| Latin America area studies, Missionary training, Self-theologizing, Lesslie Newbigin's Missiology | |
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Rochelle Cathcart zrcathca@tiu.edu
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Preaching and culture, contextualization
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Eunhye Chang 3 Ethiopia
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John Cheong
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Clive Chin zcchin@tiu.edu 3 East Asia, China |
| Contextual theologies, theology of religions, and interreligious dialogue | |
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Ethan Christofferson
Hakka Chinese; Worldview change; Ancestor veneration |
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Mary Cloutier 1 Africa |
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Terry Dischinger terry@efcaim.org 3 Ukraine The competencies of an effective cross-cultural church planter
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Mark Dominey 3 Northeast Asia (China, Japan, Koreas, Russian Far East) |
| Linguistics, ethnography, area studies, and languages (Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Korean). Leadership development process in church planting. Cell churches. North Korean culture. Current research: Zainichi Koreans (in Japan) | |
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Joo-Yun Eum andreweum@yahoo.com 2 Philippines |
| Correlation between long and short term missions; Quranic Studies; Islamic Theology | |
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Nguchie Gathogo
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Valentine Hayibor
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Transforming Leadership
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Sokpyo Hong sokpyo@hotmail.com 3 Asia; Asian minorities in the USA |
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Cultural engagement
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Ju-Hun Kim kabraham@nate.com 2 China |
| Korean Diaspora in China | |
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Ron Landers ronlanders@aol.com Preparation and training for missionary effectiveness with a focus on cross-cultural internships |
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Michael Lee 2 |
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Myunghee Lee myungheel@hotmail.com 4 Korea, India Migrant workers' churches in Korea |
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Dynitta Lieuwen 1 Urban Ministry |
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Thomas McElroy
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Stephen Mickler 3
Missions and Money |
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J. Rupert Morgan
The Anthropology of Conversion |
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Randy Newman 1 |
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Michael Nichols
Youth in Congo |
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Kimon Nicolaides 2 |
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Timothy Nyasulu
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Church Discipline |
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Roy Oksnevad 3 |
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Solveig Omland 3 Norway |
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Aizo Oshima
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Chiou-Lang Pan zcpan1@tiu.edu 4 Taiwan, China |
| Theologizing the gospel into Taiwanese contexts | |
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Robert Paye 2 Liberia |
| Building biblical bridges to West African tribal beliefs | |
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Andrew Pflederer zapflede@tiu.edu
Suffering, Martyrdom |
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Steven Pittman 2
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John Prasad
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Samuel Rajkumar 1
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Jonathan Ro
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Globalization
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Dan Seeland daseeland@msn.com
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Reciprocity and obligation; Melanesian worldview; Melanesian contextualized theologies
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Kwang Sup Shin
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Motoaki Shinohara 1 Japan
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Young-Sub Song
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Terrance Steele
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The Emergent Church
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Jason Tan
A critical study of bribery and corruption in the Philippines
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Judy Tao 2 South Africa
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Alan Totire 2 India, Korea, China
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Chin-Tzu Wang 3 |
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David Wesley 3 |
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Charles M. Woehr Woehrchilefive@msn.com
General Latin American themes, and Historical research. Dissertation research topic is the Evangelical church in authoritarian regimes (a historical look at Chile in 1973 and following) |
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Yi-Chin (Jeanne) Wu 2 |
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Whionho Yi 2
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Michael Lane Yoder yoder@gbim.org 3 Europe |
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Religious pluralism in the urbanized, post-Christian West
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Jung Yoon
Korean Migrant Worker Ministry |
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Kwang Hee Yun 1 Bangladesh
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Alexander Zell ajzell@sbcglobal.net 4 Brazil |
| Multi-cultural teams; Syncretism; Contextual theologizing; Missions & money; Spiritual warfare; Linguistics & Bible translation; Mentoring & discipleship |
