I gained a PhD in History from the School of Literature, Art and Media, University of Sydney. After that, he was given opportunities to teach and research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Seoul National University, South Korea. I am currently the Editor forUK’s Bloomsbury Series in East Asian Religions (BSEARs), as well as the chairperson of the ANU Religion Committee at the Australian National University. I works as Article Editor for SAGE Open Publications (A&HCI, Apr., 2015 – present), editorial board member for Journal of Koreanology (KCI, Jun., 2016 - present), Journal of Busan Studies (KCI, Jan., 2019 - ), and Journal ofNew Religions (KCI, Jan., 2016 – present).

I also have a great network with global scholars through the projects of international associations and conferences including France, USA, Japan, UK, Germany, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Korea, and Czech Republic. Based on the previous experience, I am currently developing on my research at the School of History, ANU, in particular within the subjects of the History of Religions: Australian Religious History, Colonial History of Religions, History of Australian Diasporas, Australian Pentecostal History, Australian Women and Religion, and Church History.

Recent publication includes as Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures: Transmission of Oral Tradition, Myth, and Religiosity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 forthcoming), New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History: Socio-Cultural Alternatives (Lexington Books, 2020 forthcoming), Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea: Emergence, Transformation, and Transmission of a New Religion (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020 forthcoming), Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society: A Transnational Movement (Lexington Books, 2017), Religious Transformation in Modern Asia: A Transnational Movement (Brill, 2015), and Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean (Continuum, 2012).

I, as the chairperson, am hosting 3^rd ANU Religion conference in December (8-10), 2020 (Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy): https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-po...