Futureproof
A book on security aesthetics published by Duke University Press, in 2020, as part of its Global Insecurities series. Coedited with D. Asher Ghertner and Daniel M. Goldstein.
Published
Refuge in a Bamboo City
A revision of my dissertation, which I completed at Rutgers in 2024, into a book manuscript examining the history and legacies of Khao I Dang, a refugee camp established in Thailand after the Cambodian genocide.
Image: “Khao-I-Dang, refugee camp. Aerial view” (1979). Photo by Gérard Leblanc / © ICRC. (Reference: V-P-TH-D-00023-13, ICRC Audiovisual Archives)
In Progress
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Yards
A book project on war and memory, involving a critical study of U.S. Army recruitment, training, carceral, and funerary practices during World War II—through research on my own family history.
Image: “2nd Army Maneuver. The 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Division, advances near Wartrace, Tennessee,” June 1941, U.S. Army Signal Corps. (National Archives photo no. 111-SC-367309)
In Progress
Crayon Portrait
A writing project on war and memory, with a focus on photography during World War I—explored through research on my own family history.
Image: "Negative Outline—Dark Chamber (From the Annual Encyclopedia. Copyrighted, 1891, by D. Appleton & Co.)," illustration in J. A. Barhydt, Crayon Portraiture: Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements, Revised and Enlarged Edition (New York: The Baker & Taylor Co., 1892), page 40. (Getty Research Institute / Internet Archive)
In Progress
Impassable Visions
A book chapter on the Cambodian genocide, coauthored with Alexander Laban Hinton and published in A Companion to the Anthropology of Death (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben.
Published
Memories of Forced Transfer
An short essay on the Khmer Rouge period, coauthored with Samphors Huy and Kosal Path and published in The Forced Transfer (Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2014), an exhibition catalog produced as part of a reparations project in Cambodia.
Published / Installed