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GRACE YIA-HEI KAO
Associate Professor of Ethics;
Associate Professor of Religion (CGU)
(Professor Kao is on leave for the spring 2010 semester)
Office: Craig 211
Phone: (909) 447-2530
Email: gkao@cst.edu
Personal Web Site
Dr. Kao teaches and researches on issues related to human rights, religion in the public sphere in the U.S., ecofeminism, and Asian American Christianity. She has also published chapters and articles on the relationship between religion and violence and the issue of interreligious cooperation and conflict.
An active member of the American Academy of Religion, Kao serves on the national steering committee of the "Law, Religion, and Culture" Group, and is also active in the Society of Christian Ethics, where she is co-convener of the Asian and Asian-American Working Group.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.A. Stanford University
B.A. Stanford University
RECENT PUBLICATIONS / ACHIEVEMENTS
Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World: Between Minimalist and Maximalist Approaches (Georgetown Press, forthcoming)
Selected Articles
Grace Y. Kao, Ramón Luzárraga, and Darryl Trimiew, with introductory remarks by Christine E. Gudorf, "Managing Diversity in Academe," Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 28.2 (2008): 115-147.
Grace Y. Kao, "For All Creation," in To Do Justice: A Guide for Progressive Christians, eds. Rebecca Toddie Peters & Elizabeth Hasty-Hinson, pp. 97-107. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.
Grace Y. Kao, "The Logic of Anti-Proselytization, Revisited," in Proselytization Revisited: Rights Talk, Free Markets, and Culture Wars, ed. Rosalind I. J. Hackett, pp. 77-110. London: Equinox, 2008.
Grace Y. Kao and Jerome Copulsky, "The Pledge of Allegiance and the Meanings and Limits of Civil Religion," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75.1 (2007): 121-149.
*This article was ranked as one of the JAAR's top ten full-text downloads for 2008.
Grace Kao,"Consistency in Ecofeminist Ethics: Contextual Moral Vegetarianism and Abortion,"International Journal of the Humanities 3.11 (2005/2006): 11-22.
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