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Research Interests

My research trajectory has evolved from reading newspapers and magazines on microfilm and interviewing women soldiers to quietly observing, reflecting, and uncovering how certain words, people, and events remain absent from the writing of history—and making it my priority to bring them to light. I also strive to move beyond writing history in isolation, shifting toward featuring makers, doers, practitioners, i.e., architects of history and society in my work, giving them space to tell their own stories. This approach shaped my second major project: two edited volumes on Myanmar Feminism and LGBTQ in Myanmar/Burma. My current research interests include social movements such as rice riots, print media, feminism, and the Burmese language.

Publications

Books

(2024) Teaching Training Toolkit:  co-authored with Li Yi, Jyothi Trivikraman, and Surajit Sarkar

(2024) Editor, , Issue 2, Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship, Wanida Press, Chiang Mai

(2023) Editor, , Issue 1, Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship, Wanida Press, Chiang Mai

(2021) co-authored with Ingrid Jordt and Sue Ye Lin, . ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.

(2014) , Routledge

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

(2024) ‘Place-based Education and Community Storytelling’ in IIAS Newsletter, number 98

(2024) ‘Myanmar Women Activism after the 2021 Coup’ in , edited by Brechenmacher et.al., Carnegie Europe

(2023) in edited volume, Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship

(2022) in ‘Flows and Fictions’ Flows and Fictions’ in Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces: Histories of Networking and Border Crossing edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and Willem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam Press, Amsterdam

(2021) Critical Asian Studies Commentary Board.

(2020) Nationalism (PDF): The Wrong Framework for Understanding Local Activism in Myanmar’, ISEAS Perspective, Singapore, No. 45

(2018) : Feminism in Myanmar’, Working Paper Series IJBS

(2016) Politics of Myanmar’, Asian Anthropology, vol 15, issue 2, pp. 152-168

(2015) ‘Black Territory to Land of ‘Paradise’: The Changing Political and Social Landscape of Mongla’, in The Age of Asian Migration, vol. 2., Yuk Wah Chan et al., Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 131-156.

(2015) : Old and New Wunthanu Movements in Myanmar’, The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 13:4, 12-24.

(2013), : Burmese Approaches to Development’, Journal of South East Asia Research, vol 21, number 4, pp. 639-654.

(2012)  Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde/  Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania, 168: 4, 508-510.

(2012) : two adverts by Burmah Oil Company in postcolonial Burma",  IIAS Newsletter, Spring 2012, p. 34, 2012.

(2010) of Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay, "Man Like Him,"  South East Asia Research 18.3

News Articles, Op-eds, Encyclopedia Entries, Reviews, and Reports

(2024) —but it can't mask China's inability to influence warring parties' The Conversation

(2023) is worsening amid fierce resistance and international ambivalence’ The Conversation

(2022)  - 4 key things to know The Conversation

(2021) , IIAS Newsletter, number 89, IIAS, The Netherlands.

(2021) —but it's been waging civil war for decades' The Conversation

(2021) 'Resistance to military regime in Myanmar mounts as nurses, bankers join protests—despite bloody crackdown 

(2018) 'Myanmar debates women's rights amid evidence of pervasive sexual and domestic violence 

(2014) of Authority of Influence: Women and Power and Burmese History by Jessica Harriden in Southeast Asian Research Journal 22.2 (2014), 277-278.

(2014)  of "Local and Transnational Institutions in the Formation of Chinese Migrant Communities in Colonial Burma" by Yi Li in Dissertation Reviews, May 2014.

(2012) of Local Traditions, Global Modernities: Dress, Identity and the Creation of Public Self-Images in Contemporary Urban Myanmar by Georg Noack in Aséanie 29

(2012) of The Return of Galon King by Maitrii Aung-Thwin in Journal of the Economic and Social History 55: 183-186.

(2012) "" The Morningside Post, Columbia/SIPA (2012).

(2012) : An Encyclopaedia in Volume 3: Cultural Sociology of East Asia; Part 3, 1900 to Present: "Burma (Myanmar).

(2012) Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An Encyclopaedia in Volume 3: Cultural Sociology of East Asia; Part 3, 1900 to Present: "Chinese Diaspora”

(2011) "" South East Asia Research 19.3, 537-566.

(2011) "," The Platform

(2010) "," The Guardian 8 Nov 2010.

Education

• Ph.D., SOAS (University of London), History
• M.A., SOAS, Southeast Asian Studies
• B.A., Grinnell College, Sociology and Biology