Selected Publications

InterAsian Intimacies across Religion, Race, and Colonialism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024)

“The Body of the Burmese Muslim,” in Bodies Beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia, edited by Elena Valdameri, Kate Imy, Teresa Segura-Garcia, and Erica Wald (Leiden University Press, forthcoming).

Co-authored with Chiara Formichi, Barbara Andaya, Christina Firpo, Guo-Quan Seng, and Taomo Zhou, “Paving the Road Ahead: Women in (post) Colonial Southeast Asia,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol 55, no. 1 (February 2024).

“Foreword,” in Waves of Upheaval: Political Transitions and Gendered Transformations in Myanmar, edited by Jenny Hedström and Elisabeth Olivius (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2022): ix–xiii.

“Belonging Across Religion, Race, and Nation in Burma-Myanmar,” in The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification, edited by Zarine L. Rocha and Peter J. Aspinall (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 757–778.

“Talking Sex, Making Love: Moe Nin and Intimate Modernity in Colonial Burma,” in Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s–1970s, edited by Susie Protschky and Tom van den Berge (Leiden: Brill, 2018): 136–165.

“Transcultural Intimacies in British Burma and the Straits Settlements: A History of Belonging, Difference, and Empire,” in Belonging Across the Bay of Bengal: Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights, edited by Michael Laffan (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017): 117–138.

“Masculinities in Asia: A Review Essay,” Asian Studies Review 38.2 (June 2014): 243–252.

“Colonial Intimacies in Comparative Perspective: Intermarriage, law, and cultural difference in British Burma,” Special issue, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 14.1 (Spring 2013).

“The Life and Writings of a Patriotic Feminist: Independent Daw San of Burma,” in Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements, edited by Susan Blackburn and Helen Ting (National University of Singapore Press, 2013): 23–47.

Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma (University of Hawai’i Press, 2011).

“The Modern Burmese Woman and the Politics of Fashion in Colonial Burma,” Journal of Asian Studies 67.4 (2008): 1277–1308.

“The ‘Traditional’ High Status of Women in Burma: A Historical Reconsideration,” Journal of Burma Studies 10 (2005/2006): 51–81.