Karis Ryu

Karis Ryu | 류혜원 is a doctoral student in the Department of Religious Studies with a Graduate Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. She investigates race, religion, militarism, and power, especially how they shape the constructions of marginalized subjectivities and imagined futures. Her current project entwines scholarship and creative writing to trace and theorize the construction of Asian American Christian subjecthoods. She is also interested in how evangelical and liberal Christians across racial, political, and socioeconomic distinctions imagine the spatial and social order of heaven.

Karis writes fiction, essays, and poetry, and grew up as a U.S. military dependent. She holds an M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School and an A.B. in History and East Asian Studies from Brown University.

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