Assistant Professor・ Kyoto University
特定助教・京都大学
The Hakubi Center & Graduate School of Letters
白眉センター & 大学院文学研究科
Welcome!
I am Christy Wang, a historian of religion and politics with a dual focus on the English Reformations and their modern global afterlives. I am currently a program-specific assistant professor at the Hakubi Center and the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University.
My research examines how ideas forged in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European and English Reformations—particularly those of church-state relationship and religious moderation—shaped political and economic thought in early modern England and continue to influence evangelical politics in contemporary East Asia.
I received my DPhil in Theology and Religion from the University of Oxford in October 2022. My first monograph project, Subversive Conformity: The Puritan Struggle for Via Media in the Church of England, is approved for full manuscript review with Cambridge University Press.
I am now co-editing a special issue with Professor Peter Lake, 'Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World', an interdisciplinary work that combines political, religious, and economic perspectives, based on a conference I co-organised with Dr Koji Yamamoto, my mentor and an established economic historian, in the University of Tokyo in September 2025, when I was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow there.
Along with my recent article on the reception of puritan politics in 21st century China, I have produced many publications. Together, these studies form part of a broader inquiry into how religion shapes human society across time and cultures—from early modern England to East Asia today.
