Bosco Bae

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion

• Email: boscobae@augustana.edu
• Office: Old Main 007

Dr. Bosco B. Bae comes to Augustana after holding a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion position at Centre College and the University of Lynchburg. He has a background in Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Durham (England) with a focus on the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion. He completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He maintains interests in East Asian Religions (focus: Korea), African Religions (focus: South Africa), as well as Religion in the United States. Thematically, he is engaged with issues of Method and Theory (particularly on belief), Religion and Money (including issues of race, health/medicine, and justice), and recently Art and Spirituality.

His work has been published in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Open Theology, Religions, Journal of Religion in Africa, and several edited volumes. Dr. Bae is also Founder/President/Executive Director of Groundhog Projects (an art-related non-profit organization in Chicago tied to the late artist Gregory Bae) and remains active in Chicago’s art world. He continues to develop a ceramic studio practice and has shown in solo and group exhibitions.