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 examines how North American evangelicals shaped the Cold War in Southeast Asia, especially through clandestine activities. Other major research areas involve the political and ethical dimensions of Christianity’s spread and methodology in the study of world Christianity.