We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming 2023. “Shrimp Wars: The Trials and Triumphs of Vietnamese American Shrimpers of the Gulf Coast” in Eating More Asian America: A Food Studies Reader. Ed. Robert Ji-Song Ku. New York University Press.

2022. “Postcard from Asian America” in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now. Eds. Jeff Yang, Phil Yu and Philip Wang. Harper Press.

2021, December 17. “Conflict and Care: Vietnamese American Women and the Dynamics of Social Justice Work”, Amerasia Journal, 47:1, 120-133, DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1976025

2021 “Prison Life in the Time of Coronavirus” Edited and published as "Voices on the Margins" in Vietology, I (01), 26-27.

2019. “My Road Trip to Mississippi With 5 Trump Supporters” Edited and published in The Critical Refugee Studies Collective.

2014. “Environmental Justice” and “Nail Salons” in Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Mary Yu Danico. Sage Publications.

2012. Immigrant Business and the Racialization of Work: A Tale of Two Niches in Texas' Vietnamese Communities [Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin] UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

2008. “Vietnamese Texans” in Asian Texans: Our Histories and Our Lives. Ed. Irwin Tang. University of Texas Press.

2005. “Troubled Waters – Vietnamese Shrimping Industry in Decline” in Southern Exposure: Special Issue of “East Meets South – 150 Years of Asian/Southern Intersections”.

2003. “A Brief Profile of the Demographic Growth of Asian Americans in the South” in The New Face of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21^st Century. Eds. Eric Lai and Dennis Arguelles. AsianWeek and UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center, CA.

2002. “Evolution of Remittances from Family to Faith: Vietnamese Buddhists and Catholics in Houston” in Religion Across Borders: Transnational Immigrant Networks. Eds. Helen Rose Ebaugh and Janet S. Chafetz. AltaMira Press, CA.