Annie Li, who graduated with highest honors in history and a second major in sociology, completed the Master of Philosophy at Oxford University, focusing on church history and researching the theological motivation behind transnational social movements.
This course of study allowed her to expand on her honors thesis, which examined the motivations of Chinese American activists from San Francisco’s Presbyterian Church in Chinatown (PCC) who participated in the Civil Rights Movement in the South and the Asian American Movement in the West.
Selected as an IDEAS Fellow in her second year Annie went on to serve as a teaching and research assistant in the sociology department. She also launched “Emory in Via: A Journal of Christian Thought,” Emory’s only undergraduate religious dialogue journal.
A New Jersey native, Annie is currently undertaking a PhD in Religion at Princeton University.