The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) is supporting the growth and development of scholarship and public knowledge on Asian Pacific American religions through two grant initiatives. These initiatives serve three primary interrelated functions: building and diversifying scholarship, strengthening the academic pipeline, and promoting public engagement. Research GrantsThe Asia Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) Research Grant supports […]
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Asking good questions
Dawn dismantles the social science edifice that makes it possible to think that the question “What are the origins of inequality?” has a meaningful answer located in wealth inequality.
A Middle Eastern indigenous critique?
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Indigenous refusals and near others
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History is full of people with ideas
According to Graeber and Wengrow, European elites did not embrace naturalism and empiricism in their accounts of human history to shed religious epistemologies and institutions. Rather, Graeber and Wengrow argue that the…
Play astronauts and actual refugees
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