Kathryn Gin Lum

Professor Gin Lum’s teaching and research focus on the lived ramifications of religious beliefs; she specializes in the history of religion and race in America. She is the author of Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction (Oxford 2014), and Heathen: Religion and Race in American History (Harvard 2022), which won the Merle Curti Intellectual History Award from the Organization of American Historians, the Society for US Intellectual History Annual Book Prize, and the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society of Church History. She is also co-editor, with Paul Harvey, of The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History (Oxford 2018). She is affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) and is the founder and director of the American Religions in a Global Context Initiative at Stanford.