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APARRI 2025 Graduate Student Testimonials

One of the unique aspects of APARRI is our commitment to mentorship and support across all career stages. We aim to elevate the scholarship, activism, art, and community leadership of all of our members—including and especially graduate students. At the APARRI 2025 conference, we made space for our graduate students through a mentoring lunch, a […]

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The APARRI Magic: Carolyn Chen’s Introductory Remarks at APARRI 2025

Carolyn Chen, Executive Director of APARRI, delivered the following introductory remarks at the APARRI 2025 conference, where she reflected on the magic of APARRI’s intellectual community and culture of care. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drPt_3t5HZE Welcome to APARRI 2025! I am Carolyn Chen, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Religion Research Initiative, or APARRI, and Co-Director of the […]

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Will the next dalai lama be a machine?

July 6 marks the 90th birthday of the 14th dalai lama, Tenzin Gyatso, who is considered to be a Buddhist bodhisattva, or one who recognizes their interdependence with all others and aspires to reincarnate to serve all beings. Since his exile in 1959, the Dalai Lama has become a symbol of religious freedom and national […]

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So, what next? — SueJeanne Koh

Read the first post of Dr. Koh’s two-part blog feature here. In my earlier post, I offered two approaches for how one could approach careers outside of faculty positions in colleges and universities, and a constructive rationale for why one should consider doing so.  Here, I offer a lightly annotated and selective list of resources […]

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APARRI’s 2024 Highlights

For APARRI, 2024 was a year of community-building, program development, and the fostering of exciting and innovative scholarship on Asian Pacific American religions. Here are some of our highlights! We funded our first round of Collaborative Grants: This year, we accepted our first round of applications for Collaborative Grants which fund projects between APA religion […]

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Graduate Student Spotlight: Seokweon Jeon

This Graduate Student Spotlight features Seokweon Jeon, a PhD Candidate in Religion at Harvard University. Check out our interview with Seokweon below! 1) Tell us a bit about your research interests. How do the study of Asians and Asian Americans and the study of religion intersect in your work? I am a religious historian specializing […]

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