Dr. Shirley Lung is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2022. Her scholarship lies at the intersection of Asian American Studies, race/ethnicity, religion, and migration. Her research focuses on racial and ethnic formation in Asia and Asian America, specifically asking how religious organizations construct and mobilize narratives of ethnic and racial identity. She is also interested in how religious organizations navigate the transnational religious economy and geopolitical events. Her next project will study postwar ethnicity-based religious organizations and their political transformation over time. She has published in Religions, Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives, and Public Books. Her research has been supported by the Louisville Institute, the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Global Research Religion Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, among others.