Grace Yia-Hei Kao
Identity Snapshot
- English: Grace Yia-Hei Kao
- Chinese: —
- Era: -
- Geography: -
- Core roles: professor, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
- The honor of being the first Asian American woman to have been awarded tenure at CST
Education
- Stanford University — 1996 — B.A. 哲學
- Stanford University — 1997 — M.A.倫理學
- Harvard University — 2003 — Ph.D.宗教學
Employment
- Claremont School of Theology — 2009-Present — Associate Professor of Ethics
- Center of Sexuality, Gender, and Religion — Present — Co-Director
Role in the Community
- Raised in a Taiwanese American church — she names this directly in her essay «Passing” for White to Get Into Harvard? (Guest Post: “Passing” for White to Get Into Harvard?, taiwaneseamerican.org, 2012-02-17), where she wrote as a guest author on Asian American admissions and identity.
- In that same essay she is identified as Associate Professor of Ethics at Claremont School of Theology (Claremont Lincoln University Consortium) and author of Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World (Georgetown University Press, 2011), then working on a second book on Asian American Christian ethics — consistent with the TAH Employment table above.
- Held in the TAH story corpus as a community record: 02 (published 2016-02-06).
- Per the TAH profile, first Asian American woman awarded tenure at Claremont School of Theology.
Re-verified 2026-09-22 (slice 09220700-15): fresh grep of works/articles (Grace Kao / Yia-Hei) returns only the two records already linked above (802. Grace Yia-Hei Kao, Guest Post: “Passing” for White…) plus index rows — no new absorbable corpus material.
Family
No filled family fields on the TAH profile.