Reflections

Reflections

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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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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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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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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