Dr. Ann Gillian Chu is selected as 2025 Scholar of Baptist Scholars International Roundtable (BSIR Scholars), organized by Baylor University, Department of Religion.

BSIR Scholars were selected through a competitive process to present their papers related to the 2025 theme: Baptists and Global Mission. As Scholars consider how Baptists around the world have thought about missions and engaged in missionary work, Fellows respond to their papers when all convene in Oxford, UK.

Dr. Ann Gillian Chu is an Assistant Professor  of our department, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Religion and Public Life in the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Dr Chu received her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. She graduated with a Master of Divinity from Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, and a Master of Arts (Hons) in English Language from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Dr Chu recently published an article in Practical Theology, titled “Stanley Hauerwas and ‘Chan Tai-man’: an Analysis of Hong Kong Laypeople’s Lived Theology and Hong Kong Theologians’ Engagement with Stanley Hauerwas’s Political Theology from a Practical Theology Perspective.” (2023)