Refuge in a Bamboo City
In Progress
I am revising my dissertation, which I completed at Rutgers University 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. The manuscript draws on extensive archival and oral history research, as well as analysis of memoirs and autobiographies.
As an extension of this project, I am developing an oral history collection called “Recollecting Khao I Dang,” in partnership with interview narrators and the Rutgers Oral History Archives, that will comprise a selection of interview transcripts completed as part of my dissertation research.
“Khao-I-Dang, refugee camp. Aerial view” (1979). Photo by Gérard Leblanc. © ICRC (Source: ICRC Audiovisual Archives)