ABOUT
Born in Toronto to a Chinese-Canadian mother and Anglo-Saxon-Canadian father, I earned a BA (Honours) in Philosophy and Drama, and an MA in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University. I also won the Pall Ardal Prize in Moral Philosophy, the Alfred Bader Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities, and received a SSHRC–CGS scholarship for my MA.
Since beginning my PhD, I have won a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier (CGS) Doctoral Scholarship (2017-2020), the Henry Mandelbaum Doctoral Graduate Fellowship (2018), and placed in the Top 5 of the SSHRC Storytellers competition (2018).
During 2017/2018 I was a visiting graduate student in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, and during the 2019 Lent term I was a visiting graduate student in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, and a visiting scholar at the Woolf Institute. In June 2020, I was awarded my PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen's University.
Presently, I am a Banting Fellow based at the Centre for Sociological Research at Katholieke Universities (KU) Leuven working with Professor Dick Houtman. I am also a Visiting Scholar in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
I have published academic articles in journals such as American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Religion, and Journal of Contemporary Religion, and regularly contribute to media outlets such as The Conversation. Check out some of my articles on my Publications page.
I am also available for speaking engagements. I regularly give talks on current religious trends in liberal democracies (especially as it relates to the millennial generation), contemporary expressions of spirituality, and other issues related to religion in modernity. If you are interested in booking me for a speaking engagement please see my Contact page.
I live in Toronto with my wife/partner, Chantel, my daughter, Audrey, and my two dogs, Mick and Lily.
During 2017/2018 I was a visiting graduate student in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, and during the 2019 Lent term I was a visiting graduate student in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, and a visiting scholar at the Woolf Institute. In June 2020, I was awarded my PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen's University.
Presently, I am a Banting Fellow based at the Centre for Sociological Research at Katholieke Universities (KU) Leuven working with Professor Dick Houtman. I am also a Visiting Scholar in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
I have published academic articles in journals such as American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Religion, and Journal of Contemporary Religion, and regularly contribute to media outlets such as The Conversation. Check out some of my articles on my Publications page.
I am also available for speaking engagements. I regularly give talks on current religious trends in liberal democracies (especially as it relates to the millennial generation), contemporary expressions of spirituality, and other issues related to religion in modernity. If you are interested in booking me for a speaking engagement please see my Contact page.
I live in Toronto with my wife/partner, Chantel, my daughter, Audrey, and my two dogs, Mick and Lily.