Melissa Inouye
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye is a senior lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of Auckland. She holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history of global Christianity, including the history of native Christianity in China and the history of global Mormonism. She is also active in the study of women and religion. Dr Inouye is an associate editor of the Mormon Studies Review, the premier scholarly journal for cutting-edge research in Mormon Studies. Her first book, China and the True Jesus: Miraculous Community in Modern China, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in January 2019. Her research and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in scholarly journals such as Modern China and Twentieth Century China, and in edited volumes such as Modern Chinese Religion, the new definitive work on Chinese religious history edited by Vincent Goossaert, John Lagerwey, and Jan Kiely (Brill, 2015). In 2009 she received the Religious Research Association's Constant R. Jacquet Research Award for her dissertation research on the history of the True Jesus Church. Dr Inouye is an experienced teacher, having mentored students at four universities in three countries over the past ten years. Her research and scholarly perspective have been featured in radio shows, television documentaries, news outlets, and scholarly websites such as the Toynbee Prize Foundation. She was born and raised in Costa Mesa, California, attended college at Harvard College, and now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
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