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Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
Ethnicity, refugees, diaspora and displacement, multiraciality,
self and identity, adolescence, folklore, Asian ethnonationalism,
new SE Asian Americans, Buddhist Thai, Thai Muslim, Inupiaq Eskimo.
My work-in-progress, At the Crossroads: Thai Muslims of the Andaman Coast, is a study of the Thai Muslim in southwestern Thailand where moderate Islam is practiced. Part of the study is to locate their Muslimness within the national construct of Thai citizenship and their contested discourse. Another writing combines the genres of creative writing and ethnography into an autoethnography, Lives, Places, and Memories. Another research is a study a new SE Asian American ethnic group, the Thai Americans, comparing the American-born group with the Thailand-born group living in Bangkok.
Selected Publications
Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the America. Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee eds. Picataway: Rutgers University Press, 2005
Between Necessity and Choice: Rhode Island Lao American Women. In Displacements and Diasporas, 2005, pp. 194-226.
The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Inupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2005
Beyond the Cockfight: Masculinity and the Thai Dove-Cooing Contest. In “Thai Folklore, Folklife, and Folk Literature” issue, Manusaya (Journal of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn U., Bangkok) Siraporn Nathalang and Prakong Nimmanhemin eds. To appear December 2005
Folktales of the Riverine and Coastal Inupiat. Bilingual English and Eskimo textbook for Inupiaq students. Northwest Arctic Borough and the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2003.
Courses Taught
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