Grace Kao was awarded a 2017=2018 Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Grant with Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Linda Thomas to discuss “Teaching and Pedagogy as Racialized Bodies.” They met over two separate weekends in Chicago to discuss issues they face in...
Beginning with a first meeting at the American Academy of Religion, Professor Kao was part of a cohort of scholars who was trained in the “reproductive justice” framework by consultants of Religious Coalition for Religious Choice. All told, they met twice...
Grace Kao was invited to take part in two week-long conferences in the 2016-2017 academic year for Asian/Asian North American mid-career faculty in religion and theology. Held on two separate weeks at Claremont School of Theology, the participants discussed particular...
Dr. Kao spent 4 days in a beautiful seaside inn in Southport, Maine with fellow colleagues as part of the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) joint project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Association of...
Grace Kao was invited to take part in a book project on Christian social activists entitled Can I Get a Witness? sponsored by the Project on Lived Theology (at the University of Virginia) and the Other Journal. Over the course of two multiple day meetings (at UVA and...
Dr. Kao enjoyed spending the past several days with fellow mid-career faculty in Orlando, Florida discussing distinctive issues and challenges that arise mid-career. From March 5-6, she first met with a smaller group of racial-ethnic faculty. She then gathered with...
