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Kenyon University
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Anna Sun is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Kenyon College.

Anna Sun’s teaching and research interests include sociology of knowledge, sociology of religion, social theory, and sociology of East Asia. In 2003-04 she was a Mellon Dissertation Fellow at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London, and in 2005-06 she was a Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation Fellow at Kenyon College. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University in 2008.

As a co-principal investigator of the John Templeton Foundation funded research project “The Empirical Study of Religions in China” (ESRIC), 2006-09, Sun has been studying the revival of Confucianism as a religion in contemporary China, as well as the larger conceptual issues of the classification of Chinese religions.

In 2009-10, Sun was selected to be part of the SIAS Summer Institute “Action Theory in Philosophy and the Social Sciences” at the National Humanities Center, working on religion, agency, and action.

Besides her scholarly publications, Sun’s work has also appeared in Harvard Review (2000) and The London Review of Books (2004). A MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2001, she is currently a Consulting Editor of The Kenyon Review.