Daniel D. Lee, PhD
Founding Academic Dean of the Asian American Center
Daniel D. Lee is the founding Academic Dean of Fuller’s Center for Asian American Theology and Ministry. Serving in various leadership roles since 2010, he has been the key force behind the Center and the Asian American Initiative before that. He has also taught theology and Asian American studies at Fuller since 2015.
Dr. Lee’s research areas focus on the Reformed tradition and contextual theologies, and he brings broad ministry experience to his work. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), he has served in pastoral roles in both New Jersey and Southern California. He was previously a chaplain and, for several years, a campus ministry staff member for Servants Ministry in Virginia.
Lee is author of Doing Asian American Theology: A Contextual Framework for Faith and Practice (2022) and Double Particularity: Karl Barth, Contextuality, and Asian American Theology (2017), as well as the editor of The Theology of Asian Americans and Pacific Peoples: A Reader, 1976, complied by Roy Sano (2023). He is a member of the Association for Asian American Studies, Asian American Psychological Association, American Academy of Religion, and Karl Barth Society of North America.