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 Wang, a historian of religion and politics with a dual focus on the English Reformations and their modern global afterlives. I am currently a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, and a co-convenor at UTokyo's Political Economy Tokyo Seminar (PoETS).
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.
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.
