Originally from Southern California, Tran received his BA (1994) from University of California, Riverside and his M.Div. (2002) and Ph.D. (2006) from Duke Divinity School where he studied under Stanley Hauerwas. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology and holds the George W. Baines Chair of Religion in the Department of Religion at Baylor University, where he researches and teaches theology, ethics, and identity theory.
