Officers and Board Members
Kyle Dieleman, president
Dr. Kyle J. Dieleman is Associate Professor of Theology at Dordt University (Sioux Center, IA). Dr. Dieleman's research focuses on the Reformed tradition in the early modern Low Countries with particular attention to the interplay between theology and lived religious experiences. His two book publications include The Battle for the Sabbath in the Dutch Reformation: Devotion or Desecration? (2019, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) and Navigating Reformed Identity in the Rural Dutch Republic: Communities, Belief, and Piety (2023, Amsterdam University Press).
Sujin Pak, Vice President
Dr. G. Sujin Pak (BA, Emory University; MTS, Duke Divinity School; PhD Duke University) is Dean of Boston University’s School of Theology (BUSTH) and professor of the history of Christianity. Prior to becoming Dean at BUSTH, Pak served as Vice Dean of Academic Affairs and taught at Duke Divinity School and also formerly taught at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Her teaching and research focus on the history of Christianity, the Protestant reformers (Luther and Calvin), women and the reformation, history of Christian-Jewish relations, the history of biblical interpretation, and medieval female mystics. Pak is the author of The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates on the Messianic Psalms (Oxford University Press, 2010), The Reformation of Prophecy: Early Modern Interpretations of the Prophet and Old Testament Prophet (Oxford University Press, 2018), and several articles appearing in journals such as Church History, Renaissance & Reformation Review, Religions, and Calvin Theological Journal.
Kirk Summers, Past PRESIDENT
Dr. Kirk Summers is Professor of Classics at the University of Alabama, where he serves as director of the Classics program. His research in the past fifteen years has focused on Theodore Beza and the Reformed movement in the latter half of the sixteenth century. He received Masters degrees from Reformed Theological Seminary (Biblical Studies) and Latin (University of Nebraska) and his Ph.D. in Classical Philology from the University of Illinois.
Kenneth J. Woo, Secretary-Treasurer
Dr. Kenneth J. Woo (AB, William and Mary; MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary; ThD, Duke) is the P. C. Rossin Associate Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. His research centers on the history of biblical interpretation, the intersection of biblical exegesis and lived experience, and the construction of religious identity. He is the author of Nicodemism and the English Calvin, 1555-1584 (2019, Brill) and John Calvin, Refugee Theologian (2025, Baker Academic).
angela carpenter, Board Member (2026-2030)
Dr. Angela Carpenter is the Leonard and Marjorie Maas Associate Professor of Reformed Theology at Hope College. As a teacher and scholar of Reformed theology and ethics her work explores the implications of the doctrine of grace for Christian understandings of ethics, moral agency, and human society. Her second book, Grace and Social Ethics: Gift as the Foundation of Our Lives Together, was published by Baker Academic in 2024.
nicholas cumming, Board Member (2026-2030)
Dr. Nick Cumming (BA, MS, and MDiv, Pepperdine University; PhD, King's College London) serves as Associate Professor of Humanities and Humanities Program Coordinator at Pepperdine University. His research is on the history of the Reformed Tradition in the seventeenth century. In particular, Dr. Cumming focuses on the life and work of scholastic theologian Francis Turretin and the broader religious and political contexts of seventeenth-century Geneva. His first book, Francis Turretin (1623-87) and the Reformed Tradition was published in the St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History Series (Brill) in 2020.
Sam Ha, Board member (2026-2028)
Sam Neulsaem Ha is a PhD candidate in the History of Christianity and Systematic Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. He serves as the curator of the Meeter Center and the theological librarian for Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary. He has authored a number of articles on the Reformation and its theology such as Luther’s conversion history, Calvin’s atonement theology, the consolation of theology, and more. He has also presented on various topics, including matters on global Christianity. His book in Korean on young Calvin’s letters is soon to be published.