Conference Presentations
- “From ‘Cham Brahmanistes’ to ‘Cham Ahiér’ and ‘Cham Cuh:’ the Politics of Terminology and Identity,” will be presented at the Conference of Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies “Pursuing the Common Good: Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Studies.” University of Victoria (British Columbia), October 2025.
- “Rescuing Untold Oral Histories: Archiving and Unlocking the War of Memory of the Vietnam Wars.” A paper presented at the Conference Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward Conference, Harvard University (Boston), March 2023.
- “Cham Identity: South-Central Cham in Contemporary Vietnam.” A paper presented at Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies Conference, University of Sherbrooke and McGill University (Montréal), October 2019.
- “Religious Iconography in Multi-Polity Champa: A View from the North.” A paper presented at The 21st Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. Hue, Vietnam, September 2018.
- “Nataraja, the Lord of Dance in medieval Champa.” A paper presented at the 8th “Engaging with Vietnam through Scholarship and the Arts” Conference. University of Hawaii, Manoa, (Honolulu), October 2016.
- “Mahayana Buddhism: the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in medieval Champa.” A paper presented at the Graduate Student Conference for Southeast Asia research at University of British Columbia (Vancouver), April 2016.
- “Buddhism in Champa through Inscriptions.” A paper presented at the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies Conference, University of Ottawa (Ontario), October 2015.
- “(Re-) Constructing Religion of Ancient Kingdoms: From Colonial to Contemporary Discourses on “Indianization” in Southeast Asia”. A paper presented at the 7th “Engaging with Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue” Conference. Hanoi University of Business and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, July 2015.
- “Following Maritime Routes: Hinduism in pre-modern Southeast Asia.” A paper delivered at the American Academy of Religion: Eastern International Region. McGill University (Montréal), May 2015.
- “Reconstructing Cham Mandala: An Analysis of Religious Art of Medieval Champa in its Historical and Political Context.” A paper delivered at the 6th International ADI Conference “Intra-Asian Connections: Interactions, Flows, Landscapes.” Copenhagen University (Copenhagen), October 2014.
- “Vaishnava Art in Medieval Champa.” A paper delivered at the 20th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, Concordia University (Montréal), March 2014.
- “An art-historical study of Vishnu and Krishna statuary in Champa as represented in architectural and sculptural art.” A paper delivered at Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies Conference, Université de Montréal (Montréal), October 2013.
- “Worship of Shiva in the kingdom of Champa as represented in architectural and sculptural art.” A paper delivered at Canadian Asian Studies Association Conference, Université du Québec à Montréal (Montréal), November 2012.
- “Divination practices among Vietnamese minorities.” A paper delivered at the International Conference “Divinatory Traditions in East Asia: Historical, Comparative and Transnational Perspectives” (co-authored with Dr. A. Volkov). Rice University (Houston, Texas), February 2012.
Publications
- “Vaishnavism in medieval Champa through extant inscriptions and iconography,” in Birendra Nath Prasad (ed.), History, Economy and Religion: Mainland Southeast Asia, c. First Century CE-Fourteenth Century CE. Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2024, pp. 277-315.
- “Shaiva Religious Iconography: Dancing Shiva in Multi-polity Medieval Champa,” in Andrea Acri and Peter D. Sharrock (eds.), The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Medieval Maritime Asia, vol 1. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2022, pp. 289-304.
- “Religious Identity and Contemporary Ritual Practices of the Cham Ahiér in Vietnam,” in Matthias Hayek, Piere Emmanuel Roux, and Daeyeol Kim (eds.), Religious Plurality and Tolerance in East Asia, a special issue (no. 45) of the Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2022, pp. 77-117.
- “Champa’s Terracotta Buddhist Tablets at Choi Mountain, Quang Ngai Province,” co-authored, Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities. Hanoi: Vol 5, Issue 6, 2019, pp. 709-727.
- “(Re-) Constructing Religion of Ancient Kingdoms: From Colonial to Contemporary Discourses on ‘Indianization’ in Southeast Asia,” in Thuy Linh Le, Leigh G Dwyer, Phan Le Ha (eds.), Journeys & Journeying Knowledge, proceedings of the International Conference The 7th “Engaging with Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue”. World Publishing House, Vietnam, 2016, pp. 247-263.
Book Reviews
- Christina Elizabeth Firpo, The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2016) in Pacific Affairs, vol. 90, No. 4, 2017, pp. 868-870.
- Bruce M. Sullivan (ed.), Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces: Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museum (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) in Journal of Religion & Culture, Concordia University (Montréal), vol. 27, no. 1, 2016, pp. 90-92.
- Erik W. Davis, Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016) in Pacific Affairs, vol. 90, no. 2, 2016, pp. 400-402.
Research Interests
- Forgotten Voices of Vietnamese and Ethnic Minorities in the Vietnam War
- Women in Propaganda Art during the Vietnam War
- History and Religion of Vietnam and Champa
- French Colonial Studies of Champa
- Religion of the Contemporary Cham Ahier in Vietnam
- Interaction of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam with local traditions in Vietnam
- Transmission of Religious Practices, Arts, and Texts from India to Southeast Asia
- Hindu, Buddhist Philosophies
- Temple Architecture, Iconography, and Epigraphy in India and Southeast Asia
- Religious Beliefs, Divination Practice of Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam.
