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Stephanie Wong

United States
Institution Villanova University
Position Assistant Professor
Email Address stephanie.wong@villanova.edu
Prior Education Background
  • Georgetown, PhD (2018)
  • Yale Divinity School (2013)
  • Washington U. in St. Louis (2010)
Research Interests
  • Ecclesiology and Church Leadership
  • Fundamental Moral Theology
  • Globalization
  • Immigration
  • Inculturation Theologies
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Liberation Theologies
  • Political Ethics
  • Postcolonial/Decolonial Theologies
  • Race
  • Social Ethics
  • Virtue Ethics
Recent Publications
  • Book (under contract with Oxford University Press): National Witness: Chinese Catholicism After the Age of Empires.
  • FORTHCOMING: “Yu Bin and Vincent Lebbe’s Theology of Resistance: Catholic Participation in the Chinese War Effort Against Japan,” in Modern Chinese Theologies I: Mainland and Mainstream, edited by Chloe F. Starr. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023.
  • FORTHCOMING: “Roman Catholicism: Painting, Printing, and Selling Morality in Modern China” (invited article for edited volume on Chinese Christianity, ed. Daryl Ireland, Baylor U. Press, 2022.)
  • “Interreligious Ecology: Catholic Identity and Interfaith Engagement in the People’s Republic of China” in Theology Without Borders: Essays in Honor of Peter C. Phan, edited by Leo Lefebure, 157-172. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2022.
  • “Catholics and Cultures: A Panoramic View in Search of Greater Understanding.” Journal of Global Catholicism 5.1 (Wint. 2021): 94-103.
  • “Cultivating Mission as Witness: Confucian Insights for a Catholic Church in Crisis and Conflict,” in Confucianism and Christianity: Interreligious Dialogue on the Theology of Mission, 154-170, ed. Edmund Kee-Fook Chia. Abingdon, UK: Routledge Press, 2021.
  • “The Mind’s Dynamism in Chinese Catholic Theology: A Comparative Study of Metaphysics and Knowledge in the Thought of Wang Yangming and Joseph Maréchal.” Journal of World Christianity 8.2 (2018): 109-134.
  • “Religious Boundaries in Chinese Christianity.” Ching Feng: A Journal on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture 17 (2018): 67-77.
  • “Ecclesiology from Below: Urbanizing Catholicism in an Urbanizing China.” Ching Feng: A Journal on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture 15.1-2 (2016): 25-46.
  • “A Society Apart: Rural Chinese Catholics and the Historiography of ‘Otherness.” Studies in World Christianity 22.2 (2016): 86-104.
Professional Activities and Affiliations
  • Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA)
  • College Theology Society (CTS)
  • American Academy of Religion (AAR)
  • Association of Asian Studies (AAS)