Karis is a first-year Master of Arts in Religion student at Yale Divinity School, concentrating in the History of Christianity. She is interested in how history, religion, and geography come together to define the spaces formed and inhabited by Asian diasporas in North America and their relationships to surrounding social, political, cultural, and environmental contexts.
As a U.S. military dependent and second-generation Korean American, Karis grew up reckoning with multiple marginal realities. The perspectives she gained from these life experiences inspire the multifaceted ways she approaches her work. She graduated magna cum laude with honors in History and a second concentration in East Asian Studies from Brown University.