Seulbin Lee

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Seulbin Lee is a Ph.D. student in Ethics and Society, a Russell G. Hamilton Scholar, and a Theology and Practice Fellow in the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University. She is a recipient of the 2025 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award in recognition of exceptional research. She earned her B.A. in Theology and Mass Communication from Yonsei University, and holds a Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, where she was awarded the Dean’s Scholarship upon entry. She graduated with distinction, receiving both the MDiv Award for Academic Excellence and the James D. and Alice Slay Award for academic and ministerial excellence. She is a provisional elder in the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Her research examines the epistemological and ethical implications of re-engaging with narrative constructions of historical complexity, particularly in socio-political contexts characterized by collective experiences of discontinuity and transformation. Grounded in a contemporary South Korean milieu, her project situates theological ethics in interdisciplinary dialogue with narrative ethnography to consider how the hermeneutical reconfiguration of selectively remembered pasts may function as a heuristic device for complicating conventional historiographical trajectories and enabling a rearticulation of cultural memory beyond monolithic representational frameworks for a fuller embodiment of the Christian salvific vision of belonging.