Annie Li is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Religion. Her research centers on Chinese American activists from San Francisco’s Chinatown involved in the Civil Rights and Asian American Movements. Drawing on archival research and oral histories, her work is supported by Princeton’s Department of African American Studies and the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI). As a Journalism Fellow with the Program in Journalism, she created and now coordinates its inaugural mentorship program.
Annie has participated in workshops and fellowships run by Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion, the Christian Century, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life, Image Journal, the Asian American Journalists Association, and the Centre for Cultural Witness. Her essays and poems have been recognized by the Academy of American Poets, the Atlanta and New Jersey Youth Poet Laureate Programs, Inheritance, and Rattle.
Before Princeton, Annie earned an M.Phil. in Theology from the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar and a B.A. in History and Sociology from Emory University.
