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Timothy Tseng, Ph.D. (Executive Director, President of the Board, and Consultant)
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Dr. Timothy Tseng is the Executive Director and a consultant for ISAAC.He trains and facilitates seminaries, para-church organizations, and denominational staff in order to strengthen their relationship with and services to their Asian American constituencies.He also leads seminars about the socio-cultural dynamics of intergenerational ministries, the histories of Asian American Christianity, and the intersections between race and missions.
A historian by training, Tim's research interests center on Asian and Asian American religious history, Asian Christianity, race and religion in North America, the Chinese Diaspora, and American evangelicalism.Along with his forthcoming history of Chinese Christianity in the United States, he is the co-editor with Michael Emerson of The Changing Face of American Evangelicalism (forthcoming), and with Hyung Shin Park of Persistent Witness: A Documentary History of Asian American Christianity (forthcoming).He has written articles for several journals and has contributed chapters to Realizing the America of our Hearts: Theological Voices of Asian Americans, Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America, Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism, The Social Gospel Today, and New Spiritual Homes: Religion and Asian Americans.He facilitated the publication of "Asian American Religious Leadership Today: A Preliminary Inquiry" on behalf of the Pulpit and Pew Project and other projects designed to be resources for leaders in Asian American ministry settings.
Dr. Tseng is currently a member of the Council of the American Society of Church History and Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA).He has served as the President of the Asian American Baptist Caucus (1998-2002), the American Baptist Churches USA General Board, and Board of Managers of the American Baptist Historical Society, and on the Board of Christians Supporting Community Organizing.He received his PhD in American religious history and Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York (1994 and 1987, respectively) and his BA from New York University (1984).He has served as faculty at Denver Seminary (1994-1996), Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (1997-2000), and as Associate Professor of American Religious History and Director of the Asian American Center at the American Baptist Seminary of the West (2000-2006).Tim is married to Betty and has two sons, Nathaniel (16) and Benjamin (13).