JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Tokyo
日本学術振興会特別研究員
東京大学大学院経済学研究科
Welcome!
I am Christy. I am a historian of religion and politics, and I currently work as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.I graduated from the University of Oxford with the doctoral thesis titled 'Puritan Conformity, Church Polity, & Anglican Identity, 1628–88' in 2022.
As a researcher, I study the English Reformations and Puritan piety as well as their impact on politics and economics in early modern England, and have secured 6 publications. My current postdoctoral project explores providence, propaganda, and profit in the early modern English empire, and I am also completely a monograph on Reformed conformity in seventeenth-century England, focusing on the life and writings of Edward Reynolds, (1599–1676), Westminster divine and later Bishop of Norwich.
As an educator, I seek to empower students to explore the historical roots of beliefs and norms. Ideas are powerful, and, through teaching, I encourage my students to investigate how ideas come into being and how they mobilise people to action.
I have taught in the University of Oxford, including undergraduate tutorials on the figure of Jesus through the centuries, (a sample syllabus is available), and will be teaching the history of global economics at Waseda University and the history of Christian nationalism at Rikkyo University in Fall 2025. I have also previously taught at Singapore Bible College and worked as a teaching assistant at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA.
Besides teaching, I actively share my research and interests in the history of Christianity with the wider public as well. I co-created and co-host the Overtones Podcast, which explores and promotes diversity and inclusivity within Christianity.
