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Seokweon Jeon
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US Religious Historian with focus on MBC (migration, borders, citizenship), Asian America, US Imperialism | PhD Candidate @Harvard Religion & Fellow @Weatherhead | Every Thu.@BOS.Symphony | Reading Now:📚 How Our Days Became Numbered

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My article, “Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004-2024” is out with Religion and American Culture.

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Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004–2024 | Religion and American Culture | Cambridge Core
Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004–2024
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September 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
So excited for my colleague @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social — who just started her new role as Lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School — and her fall course, Celebrity and Charisma in American Christianity!

It’s going to be such a fantastic class.
I’m excited to teach my new course, “Celebrity and Charisma in American Christianity,” this fall at Harvard Divinity School!
August 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Garamond is the font that gently places the syllabus in your hands and whispers, “You won’t understand me now. But one day, you will.”

Garamond doesn’t care if you miss the deadline. Garamond is the deadline.

It’s not illegible—it’s just emotionally unavailable.
(written in Garamond, obviously)
the wokest syllabus font is Garamond because it’s so illegible it openly acknowledges that nobody reads the syllabus
July 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The Scopes trial turns 100 this month. Kelsey Hanson Woodruff writes about the legacy of the Scopes trial in Dayton, TN, and how one resident, Rachel Held Evans, tried to push evangelicalism beyond Young Earth creationism's culture war battle lines.
www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
Rachel Held Evans And The Specter Of Scopes In Dayton
For Rachel Held Evans, living in Dayton, Ohio--of Scopes Trial fame--was a way to combat the legacy of fundamentalism in evangelicalism.
www.patheos.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
On July 4, 1917, Henry Ford’s English School held its graduation. Immigrant workers in native dress descended from a mock steamship into a giant cauldron marked “Melting Pot” and emerged in suits, waving US flags. Assimilation staged as public ritual.

Credit: The Henry Ford Collection, THF106481
July 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Harvard Kennedy School announced backup plans in case it can't host international students: new and returning international students would be able to study remotely, with an option to attend the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy to finish their Harvard degrees.
Harvard Kennedy School announces contingency plans if it can’t host international students - The Boston Globe
The public policy school is the first at Harvard to go public with plans if the Trump administration is successful in banning Harvard from hosting foreign students.
www.bostonglobe.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Harvard Kennedy School announced backup plans in case it can't host international students: new and returning international students would be able to study remotely, with an option to attend the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy to finish their Harvard degrees.
Harvard Kennedy School announces contingency plans if it can’t host international students - The Boston Globe
The public policy school is the first at Harvard to go public with plans if the Trump administration is successful in banning Harvard from hosting foreign students.
www.bostonglobe.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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It’s official — @historianca.bsky.social and I are moving to Charlottesville! I’m so excited to start a new job as an Advising Fellow at UVA, advising and teaching students as they start their college experience under the leadership of the wonderful @meirazk.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This has been the hardest week I've had since coming to Harvard. But then these books arrived, one by one, like gifts. They reminded me why I study, why I’m here, and what still calls me forward.

Grateful for the scholarship and spirit of @tomtweed.bsky.social, @judithweisenfeld.com,& Gordon Chang.
May 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I’m thrilled that my new book from @yalepress.bsky.social was officially published this week. Thanks to all the students, colleagues, archivists, and librarians who helped along the way.
May 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Congrats Chanhee Heo on receiving a postdoctoral fellowship from the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis!! So excited to see the vital scholarship Chanhee will continue to bring to conversations on race, religion, and migration across the Pacific.
So grateful for the BEST advisor @kginlum.bsky.social and all those who helped me during these uncertain times—so excited to join the @ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social community!
So delighted for my brilliant advisee @chanheeheo.bsky.social and the fantastic group of postdocs starting at the @ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social this fall!

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April 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Please join the opening event of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s new exhibition “Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives.”

Erika Lee, Eunsong Kim, and Shaina Lu will be talking with the curator Victor Betts.

April 22, 2025 (Tuesday), 4PM ET

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Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives Opening Event | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Join us to mark the opening of the exhibition Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives.
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu
March 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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April 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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So thrilled to host 2025 Spring Harvard Study of Religion Book Talk with Melissa Borja (U. Michigan) for her multi-awarding-winning book, Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change.

📅 Wednesday, April 16

🕔 5:00–6:30 PM

📍 Thomson Room at Barker Center
April 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
So thrilled to host 2025 Spring Harvard Study of Religion Book Talk with Melissa Borja (U. Michigan) for her multi-awarding-winning book, Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change.

📅 Wednesday, April 16

🕔 5:00–6:30 PM

📍 Thomson Room at Barker Center
April 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Breaking: The Constitutional Court of South Korea has unanimously confirmed the impeachment and removal of President Yoon Suk-yeol of the Republic of Korea.
April 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Please join the opening event of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s new exhibition “Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives.”

Erika Lee, Eunsong Kim, and Shaina Lu will be talking with the curator Victor Betts.

April 22, 2025 (Tuesday), 4PM ET

RSVP here 👇
Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives Opening Event | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Join us to mark the opening of the exhibition Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives.
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu
March 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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South Korea on Wednesday admitted for the first time that in its rush to send children to American and European homes decades ago, its adoption agencies falsified documents to make them more adoptable. Here’s what South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission found. nyti.ms/3XYEsHJ
March 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Please join an online event marking the 150th anniversary of the Page Act of 1875! @iehs.bsky.social and @ihrc-umn.bsky.social are pleased to hold this joint event on April 22. Register below!

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March 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A legend has passed. K.W. Lee was a towering figure in journalism, Koreatown, Asian America and the pursuit of truth and justice. So gratified that Julie Ha and Eugene Yi centered K.W. in "Free Chol Soo Lee." Deepest sympathy to his family and loved ones.

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Legendary journalist K.W. Lee dead at the age of 96 – AsAmNews
K.W. Lee's groundbreaking series led to the reversal of a conviction of Chol Soo Lee, a man wrongfully convicted of a Chinatown murder in San Francisco.
asamnews.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Harvard has just announced a University-wide staff and faculty hiring freeze to help the University preserve its “financial flexibility until we better understand how changes in federal policy will take shape.”

The freeze will go into effect immediately across all of Harvard’s schools.
Harvard Freezes Hiring Amid Anxiety Over Trump | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 announced a University-wide staff and faculty hiring freeze in a message to Harvard affiliates Monday morning, citing uncertainty under the Trump administration.
www.thecrimson.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
82 years ago today—Feb. 19, 1942—Executive Order 9066 was signed, authorizing the forced removal and mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, 2/3 of whom were US citizens. The incarceration of Japanese Americans revealed how “enemy” and “citizen” are not opposites but shifting categories.
February 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A big welcome to @catholicuarchives.bsky.social who just joined Bluesky!
Hello, Bluesky!

We're taking the plunge at last and diving into this site! As a cultural heritage institution, we hope to share our collections and let folks know how they can access them.

Please feel free to let us know any questions you may have: libraries.catholic.edu/special-coll...
February 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM