Thomas W. Seat II
PhD Candidate | Religion & Society
Thomas W. Seat II
Religion & Society
thomas.seat@ptsem.edu
Profile
Tom Seat, MDiv '09, graduated from Indiana Wesley University’s John Wesley Honors College (BA, summa cum laude) and from Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv), where he received the Jean Anne Swope and James L. Mechem Award in Christian Ethics. He then joined Teach For America, teaching developmental reading in St. Louis Public Schools before returning to Princeton Seminary for a ThM in religion and society.
Seat’s dissertation centers on roles that missionaries played in the Cold War, especially the Vietnam War and related conflicts. Other major research areas involve the political and ethical dimensions of Christianity’s 20th century spread in sub-Saharan Africa and methodology in the study of World Christianity.