Kathleen L. Lodwick (February 7, 1944 – July 7, 2022) was an American educator and historian of Christianity in China during the mid-twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries.
According to historian Anthony E. Clark, Lodwick "was recognized as a front-runner in the field of China missionary research," following the publication of her book, The Chinese Recorder Index (Rowman and Littlefield, 1986).
An associate professor of history at Missouri State University in Springield by 1983, she was awarded a $69,680 grant that year by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Awarded affiliate status with the Association for Asian Studies, the group held its meetings at AAS annual conferences for more than three decades.
[10] In addition, she was appointed as the general editor of the Studies in Christianity in China book series by the Lehigh University Press.