Jina Kang, Ph.D.

Dr. Jina Kang joined the McCormick Theological Seminary faculty in July 2019. She earned a Ph.D. in Theology with a major concentration in Old Testament from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2017 with her dissertation, “Bokeumjali in Exile: Transnational Readings of Ezekiel 40-48 and Sa-I-Gu,” passing with distinction. Her dissertation engages with the concept of transnationalism in migration studies to inquire about how a contemporary community and an ancient one that formed out of migration imagines home while far away from home. Ultimately, this study seeks to foreground the experiences of migration in reading Ezekiel 40-48.

She was awarded a M.Div. from Fuller in 2007 and a B.A. in Development Studies from University of California-Berkeley in 2004. Among the courses she teaches are 8th Century Prophets, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Formation of the Old Testament, and Trauma-Informed Praxis. Dr. Kang’s research interests are in the areas of intersections between migration and theology, forced and return migrations in the Hebrew Bible, storytelling as a biblical hermeneutic, and Korean/Korean-American hermeneutics.

Courses Taught:

• Workshop: Prayer Collective: Lament, Worship & Prayer (Summer 2021)