Carolyn Chen is an associate professor in Ethnic Studies and the Program in Asian and Asian American Diaspora. Her research and teaching focus on religion, work, immigration, race, and ethnicity in the United States. She earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2002 and A.B. in Sociology at Brown University. Prior to teaching at Berkeley, she was Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University, where she served as Director of the Asian American Studies Program. Chen is the author of Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience (Princeton 2008) and co-editor of Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (NYU 2012). Chen's new book, The Dharma According to Google: When Work Replaces Religion in Silicon Valley, examines Asian spirituality in Silicon Valley firms and is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.