David Thang Moe

David Thang Moe, PhD, is Henry Rice Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Religion and Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University. He holds additional affiliated positions at Harvard as an Associate Scholar, Research Affiliate at MIT, Visiting Scholar Columbia, and Fellow at Boston University. He serves as the first Burmese scholar to co-chair of the Religion in Southeast Asia Unit at the American Academy of Religion and as a book review editor of the International Journal of Public Theology.

A sought-after speaker on Burmese politics, religion, and public life, he has been invited to speak at several leading universities across the United States, Europe, and Asia, including Yale, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh, Hamburg, Australian National University, National University of Singapore, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yonsei, among others.

His scholarship and public engagement have been featured in Harvard Political Review, Yale Daily News, VOA, The Straits Times, Christianity Today, Christian Century, and PIME Asia News, among others. Described by Christianity Today as a 'public theologian of the bridge,' his scholarship seeks to bridge the gap between grassroots and academic voices in pursuit of the common good.