@rarinald
Sociologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. I do ethnographic and interview research on gender, religion, and social change, with a focus on Indonesia. Faculty Director of the Center for Asian Studies.
#Caturday
Interested in marriage, family, and social change in Asia? My latest article on divorce in Indonesia is now available in the winter 2026 issue of Critical Asian Studies. #AsianStudies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Sociology friends! Last call to submit your abstracts/papers for the 2026 ASA conference in NYC! I'm still accepting submissions for my session on Diverse Visions and Perspectives on the Sociology of Religion.
Bio says he βdid doctoral work.β Meaning dropped out of a PhD program, most likely.
AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies 2026 invites proposals for Organized Panel, Roundtable and Book Talks on "Making Knowledge, Making History: Producing the Indonesian Past, Present and Future."
Submission deadline: February 22
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Vought and the Project 2025 folks have also been very clear about this aim, from a Christian nationalist perspective. Itβs why they align well with tech oligarchs.
A downtown protest and memorial bike ride drew an estimated 3,000 people, marking the largest ICE-related demonstrations #Boulder has seen, in photos. boulderreportinglab.org/2026/02/01/p...
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
Like the others on the ACIP panel, this fellow is a longtime anti vaccine grifter. www.civilbeat.org/2025/09/maui...
Sociologists! I am organizing the ASA 2026 session "Diverse Visions and Perspectives on the Sociology of Religion." This session will present cutting-edge theoretical, epistemological, and international/transnational perspectives on the sociology of religion. Please consider submitting your work!
Big oil + end times religious fanaticism + right wing goal to eliminate the βprofessional class.β
Open to educators in Colorado's Front Range! Afghanistanβs Terrain & Traditions is a one-day in-person workshop on January 24, 2026, on the#CUBoulder campus. Apply online now
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
Tomorrow (12/9)! Please join the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies for this exciting virtual panel on recent youth protests and discontent in Asia. With speakers on Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal! Please register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #Boulder #AsianStudies
Join #CUBoulder's Center for Asian Studies for this virtual panel on youth protests in Asia, featuring speakers discussing Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal. Dec 9, 5 - 6:30 pm US mountain time. Please register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #AsianStudies #Sociology #Boulder
Join the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies for this exciting virtual panel on youth protests in Asia, focusing on Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal. December 9 at 5 pm US mountain time. Register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #AsianStudies #Boulder
#CUBoulder friends, enrollment is still open for Indonesian language classes through the Center for Asian Studies! Community auditors are welcome! #Boulder #AsianStudies
Post-breakfast nap
ASA member Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social @colorado.edu co-authored a letter to the editor @chronicle.com alongside other scholars, asking what the consequences might be if America stops investing in language learning, cultural fluency, and global knowledge.
Sharing my latest article, βI Have a Right to A Better Imamβ: Divorce, Islam, and Changing Marriage Ideals in Indonesia." This one has been a long time coming! Thanks to @criticasianstds.bsky.social for a helpful review process! #AsianStudies www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Federal cuts are hitting CU #Boulder: More than $2.2M in lost funding is putting migrant student support and foreign language programs at risk, with Title VI grants discontinued nationwide. Whatβs at stake: boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/13/f...
Sharing my new essay, "Pivots as Praxis in Unsettled Times," examining how Indonesian women took creative risks during the COVID-19 pandemic to support their families and communities. polarjournal.org/2025/11/14/p...
Thanks to @boulderrl.bsky.social
for this in-depth coverage on how the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies has been impacted by federal funding cuts. #AsianStudies boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/13/f...
Would be interesting to see the gender breakdown.
Tomorrow 11/11 at the Center for Asian Studies #CUBoulder. The End of the War in Viα»t Nam: Reflection, Recovery, Reconciliation. With Chuck Searcy, Kelly Denton-Borhaug, and Erin Steinhauer. www.colorado.edu/cas/end-war-... #AsianStudies
Coming up at the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies: The End of the War in Viα»t Nam: Reflection, Recovery, Reconciliation. 11.11.2025. www.colorado.edu/cas/end-war-... #Asianstudies #Colorado
#CUBoulder friends! I'm thrilled to be leading a global seminar to China in May/June 2026. Please share with your students.
Social Change in Contemporary China (Beijing, Xiβan & Yunnan, China) - sponsored by the Tang Fund in 2026
Info session October 27, 5PM, C4C S350!
So true. And unfortunately, many of these community building events and spaces have been thoroughly colonized by the right.
#Sociology friends, this applies to us too!
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! π
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere π