Service

Professional Associations
Program Co-Chair, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (2018-present)
Steering Committee Member, Chinese Christianities Seminar, American Academy of Religion (2014-present).
Secretary, Society for the Philosophical Study of Education (2014-present).
Theology and Social Theory Editor, Syndicate: A New Forum for Theology. Panels organized for The Umbrella Movement and Theology; Gil Anidjar, Blood: A Critique of Christianity; John Milbank, Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People; Thomas Pfau, Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge. (2014-present).
Chair, Geography of Religions and Belief Systems Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. (2013-present; Secretary 2011-2013).
Steering Committee Member, Asian North American Religions, Cultures, and Society Group, American Academy of Religion. (2012-present).
Secretary, Society for the Philosophical Study of Education (2014-2015).

Conference Organizer
Planning Committee Member, Asia-Pacific Worlds in Motion V: Migration Beyond Borders, St. John’s College, University of British Columbia. 30-31 May 2013.
Co-organizer, Pacific Worlds in Motion III: Mobile Identities. St. John’s College, University of British Columbia. 2-5 June 2010.
Co-organizer (with David Edgington), Asian Film Festival, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, March 2007.

Conference Session/Panel Organizer
Third World Studies, Not Ethnic Studies: Rebuilding Global Solidarity from Asian American Studies and Native Studies, American Studies Association, Honolulu, HI, 7-10 November 2019.
‘Asians did not go to America, America went to Asia’: Gary Okihiro, American social formations, and the ungovernable spaces of Asian America, Association for Asian American Studies, Madison, WI, 25-27 April 2019
The Online Spiritual Atlas of China and Pedagogy and Religion in Geography, American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C., 3-7 April 2019
Faith, Place, and Material Culture: geographies of material religion, American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA, 10-14 April 2018.
Religion and Migration in Asia: space, mobilities, ontology and Religion/Geography intersections: Removing the Silences, American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, 5-9 April 2017.
Creative Approaches to Researching Religion in the City (3 sessions), American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 29 March to 2 April 2016.
Empire and the Study of Asian American Religions. Association of Asian American Studies, Seattle, WA, 17-21 April 2013; Faith, Class, and Space: Geographies of Religion. Society for the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Boston, MA, 8-10 November 2013.
Asian North American ‘Conservative’ Christian Communities, Masculinities, and Gender Issues, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 17-20 November 2012.
Traveling faith: faith and transnationalism: exploring the intersections of religion and migration ((with Elizabeth Olson and Claire Dwyer), Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 12-16 April 2011.
Immigrant Integration, Religious Diversity, and the Suburbs (with Claire Dwyer, Paul Bramadat, and David Ley), 2011 National Metropolis Meeting, Metropolis Canada, Vancouver, BC, 23-26 March 2011.

Ad Hoc Reviewer
2019: Social and Cultural Geography, Territory, Politics, Governance, and Studies in World Christianity
2018: Social and Cultural Geography, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2017: Social and Cultural Geography, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Progress in Human Geography, Global Networks, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
2016: Progress in Human Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Studies in World Christianity, Review of Religion and Chinese Society
2015: Social and Cultural Geography
2014: Progress in Human Geography, Political Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and Social and Cultural Geography.
2012: Journal of Critical Realism
2011: Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, and International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology.
2010: Geographies of Religion and Belief Systems Journal.

Institutional/Departmental Committees
Human Geography Comprehensive Exams Committee, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 2011-2012.
Graduate Equity and Diversity Committee, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 2008-2011.
Co-organizer (with David Edgington), Asian Film Festival, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, March 2007.Planning Committee

Paid Research Assistantships
Research Assistantship (David Edgington, Geography): Picture Archives of Historic Coal Harbour, Vancouver, BC. (2009).
Research Assistantship (Timothy Cheek, History, Institute of Asian Research): Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, UBC (book stacks, article archives, online bibliographies, Asian Film Festival, and the Institute of Asian Research’s 20th Anniversary Celebration). (2006-7).