Grace Y. Kao

Grace Yia-Hei Kao (born 1974) is an Asian American professor of ethics, who specializes in animal rights, human rights, ecofeminism, and Asian American Christianity. Kao earned her Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees from Stanford University. She also earned her PhD. at Harvard University.^[1][2] She is a Professor of Ethics at Claremont School of Theology and was the first Asian American woman to receive tenure there.^[3][1] She has been appointed as the interim/inaugural Bishop Roy I. Sano and Kathleen A. Thomas-Sano Endowed Chair in Pacific and Asian Theology.^[4] Kao is also the co-founding director of the Center for Sexuality, Gender, and Religion (CSGR).^[5]

Kao is the author of Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World, published in 2011,^[6][7] and co-editor, with Ilsup Ahn, of Asian American Christian Ethics: Voices, Methods, Issues, published in 2015.^[8][9] She received the faculty teaching award at Claremont School of Theology in 2011 and 2017.^[1]

• Kao, Grace Y. Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World. Georgetown University Press, 2011. ISBN 9781589017337
• Kao, Grace Y. and Ilsup Ahn, eds. Asian American Christian Ethics. Baylor University Press, 2015. ISBN 9781481301756
• Kao, Grace Y. and Rebecca Todd Peters, eds. Encountering the Sacred: Feminist Reflections on Women's Lives. T&T Clark, 2018. ISBN 9780567683007
• Kao, Grace. My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy (Encountering Traditions). Stanford University Press, 2023. ISBN 9781503635975

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