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The Wolfe Institute will be hosting events throughout the academic year to introduce Russell Jeung to our campus community in anticipation of his residency during the week of March 16, 2026.
Russell Jeung, Brooklyn College’s 2025-26 Hess Scholar-in-Residence, is Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate.
Over the last 25 years his groundbreaking research on Asian American communities has shaped the fields of Asian American Studies and Sociology of Religion. In March 2020, Professor Jeung co-founded Stop AAPI Hate, a coalition that was awarded the 2021 Webby Award for “Social Movement of the Year.” He was named as one of the TIME 100 Most Influential Persons in 2021.
Russell Jeung is Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate. He is a leading sociologist of race, immigration, and religion. Over the last 25 years his groundbreaking research on Asian American communities has shaped the fields of Asian American Studies and Sociology of Religion.
He is author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans (Oxford University Press, 2019); Moving Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies (UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2019); At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors (Zondervan, 2016); Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity and Religion Among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (with Carolyn Chen; New York University Press, 2012): and Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches (Rutgers University Press, 2004).
Jeung is considered an expert in community-based, participatory research and is extensively involved with his students in conducting research with Asian American communities. In addition, with Valerie Sie, he co-produced the documentary, The Oak Park Story (2010), about a landmark housing lawsuit involving Cambodian and Latino tenants. In March 2020, Professor Jeung co-founded Stop AAPI Hate, a coalition that was awarded the 2021 Webby Award for “Social Movement of the Year.” He was named as one of the TIME 100 Most Influential Persons in 2021.
