Presentations

Public Media

The Legacy of U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan” in Meet the Fellows: Spring Edition, Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University, January 21, 2021.

Guest Lectures

“Engaging Religion at the Smithsonian APAC,” Museums and Religion: The Politics of Preservation and Display (Graduate Seminar at Yale University), New Haven, CT, September 13, 2023.

Workshops

Workshop Co-lead, “breaking form: a workshop for creative praxis & asian americanist critique,”Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 2-4, 2026.

Conference Papers

“Constructing the Myth of Asian America: Reproducing and Queering the Racial Canon,” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 2-4, 2026.

“Rituals of Worldmaking: Empire, Modernity, and American Musical Theatre,” RITM Graduate Research Conference: Critical Knowledge Generations, New Haven, CT, February 13, 2026.

“‘No One Is Going to Save You’: Writing in the Failure of Deliverance,” Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 10-12, 2025.

“Building the (Im)Possible World,” Graduate Conference at the School of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, QC, May 16-17, 2025.

“Afterchurch: Gender, Sex, and Power in Asian American Christianity,” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, April 17-19, 2024.

“‘How Did I Let This Happen?’: Constructing the Body of Asian American Christianity,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 23-26, 2024.

“Dreaming as Method, Dreaming as Solidarity: Thoughts on Ethnographic Partnership,” Graduate Student Conference, Northwestern University Department of Religious Studies, Evanston, IL, October 25-27, 2024.

“Yoon Dong-ju in Diaspora: A Translation/Reflection/Refraction,” Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 11-13, 2024.

“For Church and State: How American Evangelicalism Constructs, and Leaves Out, Asian American Subjecthood,” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, April 25-27, 2024.

“Ruth Ozeki’s Sensory and Material World in Racial Modernity,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 18-21, 2023.

“Our Heathen Language: Asian American Poetry as Primary Sources in Studies of American Religion,” Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 20-22, 2023.

“‘We Became the Cool Kids’: Cultural Belonging at Seoul American High School, 1974-2019,” Blood in Modern Korea and Its Diasporas Workshop, Colby College, April 15, 2022.

On Both Sides of the Camera: The Autonomous Photography of Lao Monks in the Buddhist Archive,” School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Conference, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, April 6-7, 2022.

“Spiritual Inheritances and Geographic Futurities: Considering Asian and Native American Ways of Being and Relating,” Enacting Inclusive Futures: A Symposium on APIDA/A Communities, Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Michigan State University, March 18-19, 2022.

“George May’s Lost Town: Remembering Yongsan Garrison through Seoul American High School, 1974-2019,” Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference, December 6, 2021.

Roundtables

Co-organizer, “Asianist Life Writing: Part II – Family, Community, and the Diasporic Experience,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, March 13-16, 2025.

Co-organizer and Roundtable Panelist, “Asianist Life Writing: Part I – Rethinking Archives and Modes of Scholarly Expression,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, March 13-16, 2025.

Discussant Roles

“Race, Migration, and Religion in the Korean Context,” Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference, New Haven, CT, February 28, 2025.