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Sung Min Park completed his Ph.D. at McMaster Divinity College under the guidance of Stanley E. Porter. His research focuses on the application of historical sociolinguistics to the inquiry of early Christian communities as depicted in the New Testament.

Sung Min’s Ph.D. dissertation, titled “The Prestige Language of Christianity in the Book of Acts: Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches to Multilingualism in the Greco-Roman World,” is forthcoming in Brill’s Linguistic Biblical Studies series. He is currently co-authoring a sociolinguistic guidebook for biblical scholars with Stanley E. Porter and working on an edited volume project that applies sociolinguistic theories and models to biblical studies, also in collaboration with Porter. He actively engages in the fields of biblical studies and historical sociolinguistics, presenting his papers in the annual meetings of ETS, SBL, HiSoN, and NARNiHS. Several of his journal articles and book chapters in these fields are set to be published in 2025.