David Thang Moe

David Thang Moe is Henry Rice Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Religion and Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University. He also holds associated positions at Harvard as a Scholar Associate, a Visiting Scholar at MIT, and a Fellow at Boston's Pardee School of Global Studies. He is a co-editor of Public Theology for Global Witness (2023), a review editor of the International Journal of Public Theology, and a co-chair of the Religion in Southeast Asia Unit at American Academy of Religion.

A celebrated public speaker, he has been invited to speak on Burmese politics, religion, and public life at several leading universities around the world, including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, Stanford, Boston University, Toronto, New York University, Pittsburgh, Cambridge, Oxford, Hamburg, Australian National University, National University of Singapore, Yonsei, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, among others.

His scholarship engages with four distinct communities—academia, church, society, and state. His teaching and research on religion and public life have been featured in some prominent media outlets, including Voice of America (VOA Burmese News), Asia News, Yale News, Yale Daily News, Christianity Today, and Christian Century, among others. Described by Christianity Today as a 'public theologian of the bridge,' he is passionate about bridging the gap between grassroots and academic voices.