Jessica W. Wong, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Theology

Phone: (626) 387-5702
Fax: (626) 815-5469
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Biography

Jessica Wai-Fong Wong, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of systematic theology at Azusa Pacific University and works in the area of race, gender, and visual theory. She is an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and holds degrees in Christian theology and ethics from Duke Divinity School and Duke University. In addition to journal articles and chapter contributions, she is the author of The Anti-Iconicity of Blackness: A Visual Theology of Race in the Modern World (Baylor University Press, forthcoming).

Education

  • Ph.D., Christian Theology and Ethics, Duke University
  • M.Div., Duke University
  • B.A., University Scholars, Baylor University

Academic Area

  • School of Theology
    • Department of Theology

Expertise

  • Asian American Theology
  • Critical Race Theology
  • Political Theology
  • Systematic Theology
  • Theologies of Liberation

Courses Taught

  • THEO 303 - Theology & the Christian Life
  • THEO 363 - Contemporary Christian Theology
  • THEO 411 - Systematic Theology II
  • THEO 480 - Theology from the Margins

Office Hours

By appointment