“I’m grateful for the opportunity to help the Louisville Institute support relevant research that bridges congregations, pastors, and scholars within and across their respective contexts.”

Tim Tseng is the director of the Asian American Christian History Institute (AACHI), which is housed at Fuller Theological Seminary’s Center for Asian American Theology and Ministry. He is also Research Professor of the History of Christianity and Asian American Studies at Fuller’s School of Mission and Theology. He has previously served on faculty at the Graduate Theological Union, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, and Denver Seminary and founded the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity, now Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity (ISAAC).

Ordained American Baptist, he served as Pastor of English Ministries at Canaan Taiwanese Christian Church in San Jose, California, and as the Pacific Area Director of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s Graduate and Faculty Ministries. Following his father’s footsteps as a pastor in the Chinese American church, Tim was also called to research the history of Christianity after discovering the absence of Asians and Asian Americans in the standard church history narratives.

Tim was trained as an American religious historian, where he completed his M.Div. (1987) and Ph.D. in the history of Christianity (1994) at Union Theological Seminary (New York) under the tutelage of his advisor, the late James Melvin Washington. He has received the Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship and Summer Faculty Research Stipend.

Tim has been married to Betty Shek Tseng since 1985. They have two adult sons, Nathaniel and Benjamin. Tim and Betty reside in Castro Valley, California.