Karis Haewon Ryu | 류혜원 is a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies (American Religious History) at Yale University, also pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. She studies American and transpacific histories of race, religion, empire, and popular culture. She is working on her first novel with the support of the McCormack Writing Center (formerly the Tin House Workshop) and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.
Karis holds an M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School and an A.B. in History and East Asian Studies from Brown University. You can find her attending film screenings, book clubs, and musical theatre masterclasses in and beyond New Haven.
KARIS H. RYU 