Rachel Rinaldo
@rarinald.bsky.social
Sociologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. I do ethnographic and interview research on gender, religion, and social change, with a focus on Indonesia. Faculty Director of the Center for Asian Studies.
Sociologists! I am organizing the ASA 2026 session "Diverse Visions and Perspectives on the Sociology of Religion." This session will present cutting-edge theoretical, epistemological, and international/transnational perspectives on the sociology of religion. Please consider submitting your work!
January 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Sociologists! I am organizing the ASA 2026 session "Diverse Visions and Perspectives on the Sociology of Religion." This session will present cutting-edge theoretical, epistemological, and international/transnational perspectives on the sociology of religion. Please consider submitting your work!
Open to educators in Colorado's Front Range! Afghanistan’s Terrain & Traditions is a one-day in-person workshop on January 24, 2026, on the#CUBoulder campus. Apply online now
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Open to educators in Colorado's Front Range! Afghanistan’s Terrain & Traditions is a one-day in-person workshop on January 24, 2026, on the#CUBoulder campus. Apply online now
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
Tomorrow (12/9)! Please join the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies for this exciting virtual panel on recent youth protests and discontent in Asia. With speakers on Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal! Please register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #Boulder #AsianStudies
Youth Protests in Asia: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Mongolia (Webinar) 12.09.2025
Tuesday, December 9Time 5-6:30pm MSTRegister here for the webinarAnti-government protests have rocked countries across Asia since 2024, with young people
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December 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Tomorrow (12/9)! Please join the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies for this exciting virtual panel on recent youth protests and discontent in Asia. With speakers on Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal! Please register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #Boulder #AsianStudies
Join #CUBoulder's Center for Asian Studies for this virtual panel on youth protests in Asia, featuring speakers discussing Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal. Dec 9, 5 - 6:30 pm US mountain time. Please register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #AsianStudies #Sociology #Boulder
Youth Protests in Asia: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Mongolia (Webinar) 12.09.2025
Tuesday, December 9Time 5-6:30pm MSTRegister here for the webinarAnti-government protests have rocked countries across Asia since 2024, with young people
www.colorado.edu
December 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Join #CUBoulder's Center for Asian Studies for this virtual panel on youth protests in Asia, featuring speakers discussing Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal. Dec 9, 5 - 6:30 pm US mountain time. Please register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #AsianStudies #Sociology #Boulder
Join the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies for this exciting virtual panel on youth protests in Asia, focusing on Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal. December 9 at 5 pm US mountain time. Register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #AsianStudies #Boulder
Youth Protests in Asia: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Mongolia (Webinar) 12.09.2025
Tuesday, December 9Time 5-6:30pm MSTRegister here for the webinarAnti-government protests have rocked countries across Asia since 2024, with young people
www.colorado.edu
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Join the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies for this exciting virtual panel on youth protests in Asia, focusing on Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal. December 9 at 5 pm US mountain time. Register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #AsianStudies #Boulder
#CUBoulder friends, enrollment is still open for Indonesian language classes through the Center for Asian Studies! Community auditors are welcome! #Boulder #AsianStudies
December 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
#CUBoulder friends, enrollment is still open for Indonesian language classes through the Center for Asian Studies! Community auditors are welcome! #Boulder #AsianStudies
Post-breakfast nap
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Post-breakfast nap
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ASA member Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social @colorado.edu co-authored a letter to the editor @chronicle.com alongside other scholars, asking what the consequences might be if America stops investing in language learning, cultural fluency, and global knowledge.
Letter | America’s Long Game Is International Education
What happens if we stop investing in language learning, cultural fluency, and global knowledge?
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November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
ASA member Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social @colorado.edu co-authored a letter to the editor @chronicle.com alongside other scholars, asking what the consequences might be if America stops investing in language learning, cultural fluency, and global knowledge.
Sharing my latest article, “I Have a Right to A Better Imam”: Divorce, Islam, and Changing Marriage Ideals in Indonesia." This one has been a long time coming! Thanks to @criticasianstds.bsky.social for a helpful review process! #AsianStudies www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Sharing my latest article, “I Have a Right to A Better Imam”: Divorce, Islam, and Changing Marriage Ideals in Indonesia." This one has been a long time coming! Thanks to @criticasianstds.bsky.social for a helpful review process! #AsianStudies www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Federal cuts are hitting CU #Boulder: More than $2.2M in lost funding is putting migrant student support and foreign language programs at risk, with Title VI grants discontinued nationwide. What’s at stake: boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/13/f...
Federal cuts leave CU Boulder language and migrant student programs scrambling
Programs saw more than $2 million in federal cuts, part of a nationwide rollback of diversity and international education funding.
boulderreportinglab.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Federal cuts are hitting CU #Boulder: More than $2.2M in lost funding is putting migrant student support and foreign language programs at risk, with Title VI grants discontinued nationwide. What’s at stake: boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/13/f...
Sharing my new essay, "Pivots as Praxis in Unsettled Times," examining how Indonesian women took creative risks during the COVID-19 pandemic to support their families and communities. polarjournal.org/2025/11/14/p...
Pivots as Praxis in Unsettled Times
This essay is part of the series First Responders: Crises, Indeterminacies, and (Joyful) Determination in the Global South By Rachel Rinaldo Well, the point is we had to be reckless, if we weren’t …
polarjournal.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Sharing my new essay, "Pivots as Praxis in Unsettled Times," examining how Indonesian women took creative risks during the COVID-19 pandemic to support their families and communities. polarjournal.org/2025/11/14/p...
Thanks to @boulderrl.bsky.social
for this in-depth coverage on how the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies has been impacted by federal funding cuts. #AsianStudies boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/13/f...
for this in-depth coverage on how the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies has been impacted by federal funding cuts. #AsianStudies boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/13/f...
Federal cuts leave CU Boulder language and migrant student programs scrambling
Programs saw more than $2 million in federal cuts, part of a nationwide rollback of diversity and international education funding.
boulderreportinglab.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thanks to @boulderrl.bsky.social
for this in-depth coverage on how the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies has been impacted by federal funding cuts. #AsianStudies boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/13/f...
for this in-depth coverage on how the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies has been impacted by federal funding cuts. #AsianStudies boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/13/f...
Tomorrow 11/11 at the Center for Asian Studies #CUBoulder. The End of the War in Việt Nam: Reflection, Recovery, Reconciliation. With Chuck Searcy, Kelly Denton-Borhaug, and Erin Steinhauer. www.colorado.edu/cas/end-war-... #AsianStudies
The End of the War in Việt Nam: Reflection, Recovery, Reconciliation 11.11.2025
Tuesday, November 11, 4-6:30pmFlatirons Room, Center for Community (C4C)4:00pm Reception5:00pm Introductory remarks5:10 - 6:30pm presentations followed by
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November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Tomorrow 11/11 at the Center for Asian Studies #CUBoulder. The End of the War in Việt Nam: Reflection, Recovery, Reconciliation. With Chuck Searcy, Kelly Denton-Borhaug, and Erin Steinhauer. www.colorado.edu/cas/end-war-... #AsianStudies
Coming up at the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies: The End of the War in Việt Nam: Reflection, Recovery, Reconciliation. 11.11.2025. www.colorado.edu/cas/end-war-... #Asianstudies #Colorado
The End of the War in Việt Nam: Reflection, Recovery, Reconciliation 11.11.2025
Tuesday, November 11, 4-6:30pmFlatirons Room, Center for Community (C4C)4:00pm Reception5:00pm Introductory remarks5:10 - 6:30pm presentations followed by
www.colorado.edu
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Coming up at the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies: The End of the War in Việt Nam: Reflection, Recovery, Reconciliation. 11.11.2025. www.colorado.edu/cas/end-war-... #Asianstudies #Colorado
#CUBoulder friends! I'm thrilled to be leading a global seminar to China in May/June 2026. Please share with your students.
Social Change in Contemporary China (Beijing, Xi’an & Yunnan, China) - sponsored by the Tang Fund in 2026
Info session October 27, 5PM, C4C S350!
Social Change in Contemporary China (Beijing, Xi’an & Yunnan, China) - sponsored by the Tang Fund in 2026
Info session October 27, 5PM, C4C S350!
October 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#CUBoulder friends! I'm thrilled to be leading a global seminar to China in May/June 2026. Please share with your students.
Social Change in Contemporary China (Beijing, Xi’an & Yunnan, China) - sponsored by the Tang Fund in 2026
Info session October 27, 5PM, C4C S350!
Social Change in Contemporary China (Beijing, Xi’an & Yunnan, China) - sponsored by the Tang Fund in 2026
Info session October 27, 5PM, C4C S350!
#Sociology friends, this applies to us too!
One casualty in the Trump administration’s war on higher education is federal funding for area studies. This harms students, scholars, and U.S. national security.
It also comes at a time in which political science and area studies are more compatible than ever before. Read on for new research!
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It also comes at a time in which political science and area studies are more compatible than ever before. Read on for new research!
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Comparative Politics Needs Area Studies, and Area Studies Needs Comparative Politics
If you were a graduate student in political science between 1990 and 2010 or so, you probably experienced some heated debates about the future of area studies and its role in the discipline. This w…
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October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
#Sociology friends, this applies to us too!
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ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere 👍
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere 👍
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere 👍
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere 👍
Call for applications -- Global Southeast Asias Dissertation Workshop. Deadline Oct. 20! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-app...
Call for Applications: Global Southeast Asias Dissertation Workshop - Association for Asian Studies
Keywords: Southeast Asia, Global Studies March 10-12, 2026 Vancouver, Canada Application deadline: October 20, 2025 The Association for Asian Studies, with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, i...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Call for applications -- Global Southeast Asias Dissertation Workshop. Deadline Oct. 20! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-app...
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Are you an undergrad student in Southeast Asia interested in applying for graduate schools abroad? Then join us for a special series of virtual roundtables focusing on discussing the process of applying for grad school!
October 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Are you an undergrad student in Southeast Asia interested in applying for graduate schools abroad? Then join us for a special series of virtual roundtables focusing on discussing the process of applying for grad school!
Call for Papers for a special issue of Gender & Society on “Global Fault Lines: Gender, Religion, and Nationalism,” co-edited by Fauzia Husain (Queen’s University) and Rachel Rinaldo (University of Colorado Boulder).
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September 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Call for Papers for a special issue of Gender & Society on “Global Fault Lines: Gender, Religion, and Nationalism,” co-edited by Fauzia Husain (Queen’s University) and Rachel Rinaldo (University of Colorado Boulder).
Full details available at journals.sagepub.com/page/gas/cal...
Full details available at journals.sagepub.com/page/gas/cal...
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🧵I urge everyone to read this important peer-reviewed study by some of the top scholars on the methods modern autocrats use to undermine democracy and civil rights.
@annapplegate.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social among the leading scholars involved.
I also summarized the study below.
@annapplegate.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social among the leading scholars involved.
I also summarized the study below.
The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide: Authoritarian Networks, the Façade of Democracy, and Neo-Repression - Deisy Del Real, Cecilia Menjívar, 2024
This special double issue identifies the tools and conditions that allow (re)emerging autocrats to undermine democratic traditions and constrain civil rights ac...
journals.sagepub.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🧵I urge everyone to read this important peer-reviewed study by some of the top scholars on the methods modern autocrats use to undermine democracy and civil rights.
@annapplegate.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social among the leading scholars involved.
I also summarized the study below.
@annapplegate.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social among the leading scholars involved.
I also summarized the study below.
Reposted by Rachel Rinaldo
During the European campaign of WW2, American troops would leave this character to let the NAZIs know that they were everywhere.
Kilroy is beginning to pop up in public spaces. He is the call for & promise of liberation. He is hope. He is everywhere.
Kilroy was here.
Kilroy is beginning to pop up in public spaces. He is the call for & promise of liberation. He is hope. He is everywhere.
Kilroy was here.
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
During the European campaign of WW2, American troops would leave this character to let the NAZIs know that they were everywhere.
Kilroy is beginning to pop up in public spaces. He is the call for & promise of liberation. He is hope. He is everywhere.
Kilroy was here.
Kilroy is beginning to pop up in public spaces. He is the call for & promise of liberation. He is hope. He is everywhere.
Kilroy was here.
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The end of Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and National Resource Centers means the loss of critical language and area studies expertise across the United States. These are the actions of an administration that cannot imagine the future, presiding over a declining world power
Research at risk: Cultural fluency and critical language expertise | Cornell Chronicle
The federal government ended a program that has funded Cornell's Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program for decades.
news.cornell.edu
September 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The end of Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and National Resource Centers means the loss of critical language and area studies expertise across the United States. These are the actions of an administration that cannot imagine the future, presiding over a declining world power