PAAC Book Launch

PAAC Book Launch

Grace Kao hosted a book launch event for authors Soo Jin Lee and Linda Yoon of Where I Belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity. The community had an opportunity to hear the what, why, and how of the book through a Q&A that Dr. Kao facilitated...
Author Talk at the U. of Chicago

Author Talk at the U. of Chicago

Professor Kao spoke about her latest book, My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy, at an event co-sponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore at the University of Chicago. PhD...
Shame, Church Teaching & Family Matters

Shame, Church Teaching & Family Matters

Grace Kao spoke at the Families and Social Responsibility Interest Group with other panelists (MT Davila and Kari-Shane Davis) & convener Marcus Mescher at the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in Chicago, IL. She discussed the role shame plays...
Self-disclosure in Teaching & Scholarship

Self-disclosure in Teaching & Scholarship

Grace Kao spoke in the Pedagogy Interest Group  the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics on January 5, 2024. She and fellow panelists (Devahl Stahl, Monica A. Coleman, and Danielle Tuminio Hansen) spoke about how they handle matters of self-disclosure in...
The Work of Anti-Racism in Teaching

The Work of Anti-Racism in Teaching

This co-sponsored panel by the Asian and Asian American, African and African American, Latino(a) and LGBTQI+ Working Groups begins with Vincent Lloyd’s Compact Magazine piece, “A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell” to explore how issues of anti-racism are...