Associate Professor, Wartburg College

Kunihiko Terasawa joined Wartburg College in 2012 and teaches classes in world religions in dialogue, Buddhist traditions, religions of China, religions of Japan, and Islam and the modern world. He is a board member and an international advisor for East Asia for the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, is active in the Cedar Valley Interfaith Councils, and is a board member of the US chapter of the International Association for Religious Freedom—the oldest interreligious dialogue organization in the US. Dr. Terasawa’s recent research focuses on how interreligious/transnational solidarity of religions can overcome ultranationalist populism in the Pacific Rim. During a sabbatical in 2019–20, he became a visiting professor at South Korea’s Sogang University (fall 2019) and Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (spring 2020).