
William Yoo
Associate Professor of American Religious and Cultural History
Columbia Theological Seminary
Biography
William Yoo is Associate Professor of American Religious and Cultural History at Columbia Theological Seminary. He has published books on African American Christianity, Asian American Christianity, Presbyterian history, and the histories of Indigenous rights activism and abolitionism in the United States. As a teacher, preacher, and scholar, Yoo focuses on the history of racism in American Christianity. Yoo is a professor and public theologian who interprets the most challenging and urgent issues of racial justice with clarity, depth, honesty, and precision. He is presently studying sermons from various preachers across Black, white, Indigenous, Hispanic, and Asian American perspectives for a book project on Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement.