Asian American

Asian American

Stepping off the Asian American Achievement Treadmill

(Imagine Otherwise) — Conversations about the Asian American experience often come back around to status. Tug on a thread discussing the model minority myth, discrimination, or family immigration histories; and you’ll find them tied to questions of where we stand in a given hierarchy, how we got there, and where we hope to go. This […]

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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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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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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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