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Surrogacy and Public Curiosity: Grace Kao

A Q&A with My Body, Their Baby author Grace Y. Kao Originally Published on the Stanford University Press Blog. What made you want to write this book? I didn’t go into carrying and delivering a baby for my friends thinking that I’d ever turn my story into a book! Basically when folks around me would […]

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Graduate Student Spotlight: Ann Tran

We’re excited to launch our new Graduate Student Spotlight series, featuring members of the APARRI graduate student community! To start off, we’re spotlighting Ann Tran, who recently received her PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine and is now an Assistant Professor at Cal State University, Long Beach. Check out our interview with Ann below! […]

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Celebrating APARRI Year One!

2022-2023 was APARRI’s first year supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. During that year, we executed many exciting projects and events that we’re excited to share with you! Here’s a breakdown of our #APARRIYearOne Accomplishments: Launched a new website: Through our updated site, you can learn about 20+ years of awesome APARRI history, exciting grant […]

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Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative: Envisioning Radical Futures in APA Religions

Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, PhD (Loyola Marymount University) and Shyam K. Sriram, PhD (Canisius University) reflect on APARRI 2023 and APA religious futures. Imagining a Future for APA Religions and Communities The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) held its 2023 conference June 20-23. The exciting conference program included a keynote address by cartoonist Gene […]

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Steven Zhang on his experience at APARRI 2023

For the first time, this year APARRI welcomed a high school student, Steven Zhang, to our annual conference! Steven presented a paper titled “Second Generation Asian American Christians: Snowballing Towards Ethnic and Racial Heterogeneity.” Steven has created a Youtube vlog about his experiences with researching, writing, and presenting at the conference whose insights are illuminating […]

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Racial Reckoning in Race for Revival – Helen Jin Kim

Helen Jin Kim (Emory University) reflects on her new book. In Race for Revival, I argue that the rise of evangelical America’s empire depended on America’s religious Cold War in Asia.[i] With the outbreak of the Korean War, the first “hot war” of the Cold War, Koreans were indispensable to the transpacific networks that made […]

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Book cover of American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War

Duncan Ryuken Williams wins 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Religion

Duncan Ryuken Williams, a religion professor who directs the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at the University of Southern California, won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for ideas set forth in “American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War,” his 2019 book published by Harvard University […]

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