Hyaeweol Choi is a professor of Korean studies, religious studies and gender studies and holds the C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies at the University of Iowa. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, religion and transnational history. She is the author of numerous books, including Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea (2020), New Women in Colonial Korea (2013), and Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (2009). She is a co-author of Gender in Modern East Asia: An Integrated History (2016), and is a co-editor of Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific (2014) and Korean Women: A Sourcebook (2017).