I am a writer, researcher, urban geographer, and artist.
My work explores urban historical geographies, and my research interests include memory and archival theory, oral history, histories of violence, the politics of humanitarianism, urban planning and community development, political ecology, aesthetic politics, and the history of technology and textual production.
I am currently working on three major research and writing projects: a revision of my dissertation on the entwined histories of Khao I Dang refugee camp and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and two projects on war and memory involving explorations of my family history.
I have a PhD in geography from Rutgers and an MA, with a concentration in political ecology and ethnographic film, from NYU.
My work has been supported by a Beinecke Scholarship, Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, American Association of Geographers Applied Geography Student Research Fellowship, Center for Khmer Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis Graduate Fellowship, and Rutgers Presidential Fellowship, among other grants, fellowships, and scholarships.
I live in New York, where I am also a typewriter technician and collector.