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23-July-2002
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Seminary news

by Alexa Smith

Haruko Nawata Ward has been named assistant professor of church history at Columbia Theological Seminary. She will begin teaching this fall. Her areas of teaching and research have been Protestant and Catholic Reformations in Europe and their impact on other continents; mission history; late medieval humanism and biblical theologies, women in religion and society, the history of Christianity in Japan and Asia; and justice issues in church history. A minister-member of New Brunswick Presbytery, Ward received the Th.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary.

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Dr. Sang Chang, a 1977 Ph.D. graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, was named prime minister of South Korea on July 11 by Korean president Kim Dae-jung. Chang, 63, is the first woman is hold this position and will serve as acting prime minister until her anticipated confirmation by the National Assembly in July. Holding the Ph.D. in New Testament, Chang has spent her career as an educator at Ewha Woman's Unversity in Seoul. Having graduated from the university herself, Chang joined its faculty in 1977. She is ordained in the Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Korea.
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