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.
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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…
tompepinsky.com
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.
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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
Today was my first experience with what has become a ritual of modern American parenthood -- having my child's school be on lockdown. Thankfully, it seems to have been a person mistakenly identified as being armed. Why does our society continue to allow this?
www.dailycamera.com/2025/09/11/l...
www.dailycamera.com/2025/09/11/l...
Report of a man with gun near Boulder’s Fairview High School prompted lockdowns, shelter-in-place orders
The man police identified as being the person reported with a gun was not armed but was carrying a cellphone and wearing a weighted vest while returning from a run.
www.dailycamera.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Today was my first experience with what has become a ritual of modern American parenthood -- having my child's school be on lockdown. Thankfully, it seems to have been a person mistakenly identified as being armed. Why does our society continue to allow this?
www.dailycamera.com/2025/09/11/l...
www.dailycamera.com/2025/09/11/l...
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Broad concerns about inequality, corruption, and lack of opportunity are driving the protests -- as well as anger about police violence and re-militarization. Over 60% of Indonesian workers are in the informal economy. Precarity is the norm, even for some in the middle class.
‘The Bang, Bang, Bang’: How Protests, Tear Gas and Looting Roiled Indonesia
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Broad concerns about inequality, corruption, and lack of opportunity are driving the protests -- as well as anger about police violence and re-militarization. Over 60% of Indonesian workers are in the informal economy. Precarity is the norm, even for some in the middle class.
Good piece on what is driving the anger of protesters in Indonesia. theconversation.com/the-banality...
The banality of state violence: Why the Indonesian police have become a public enemy
Large-scale protests occur few times in Indonesia aimed at parliament. But police use excessive force to disperse mass, killing a civilian.
theconversation.com
August 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Good piece on what is driving the anger of protesters in Indonesia. theconversation.com/the-banality...
Area studies centers develop language and cultural expertise. The Center for Asian Studies at #CUBoulder is in the same situation as the other National Resource Centers. If already-awarded federal funds are not released by 9/30, many activities will end. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Federal Grants for Area Studies and Foreign Language at Risk
Expected funding for National Resource Centers, which are dedicated to language and area studies education, never came through this summer. Experts worry this could spell disaster for the already-stru...
www.insidehighered.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Area studies centers develop language and cultural expertise. The Center for Asian Studies at #CUBoulder is in the same situation as the other National Resource Centers. If already-awarded federal funds are not released by 9/30, many activities will end. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today.
Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American.
There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American.
There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
August 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today.
Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American.
There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American.
There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
It's not just NIH/NSF, etc. Foreign language and area studies grants to universities are also threatened like never before.
Federal Grants for Area Studies and Foreign Language at Risk
Expected funding for National Resource Centers, which are dedicated to language and area studies education, never came through this summer. Experts worry this could spell disaster for the already-stru...
www.insidehighered.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's not just NIH/NSF, etc. Foreign language and area studies grants to universities are also threatened like never before.