Sze-Long Aaron Wong

Sze-Long Aaron Wong is pursuing a Ph.D. in Liturgical Studies at Boston University School of Theology under Dr. Karen Westerfield Tucker. His research interests include East Syrian Christian liturgical practices in medieval China, 19th-century German missions in Guangdong, and contemporary worship theologies of Chinese immigrant communities in North America. Before joining Boston University, he studied at Yale Divinity School where he received a Master of Arts in Religion and a certificate from the Institute of Sacred Music. His master’s project was an annotated English translation of the autobiography of his forefather Wong Yuen-sum (1817-1914), who was an active itinerant preacher and church planter in Guangdong. Sze-Long received musical training at the Peabody Conservatory of Music (B.M.) and The Juilliard School (M.M.) and has worked for over twenty years in the performing arts and education sectors in New York and Toronto. He is a member of the Hong Kong Anglican Church (Sheng Kung Hui) and has served in Anglican and evangelical churches in Canada as a worship leader, musician, and conductor. Email: slawong@bu.edu