Publications
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Misreading the Bengal Delta
(2021)
"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749624
Perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for climate change ...
Three Impeachments
(2024)
A probe into corruption in late Imperial China
At the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or ""High Qing"" era, a time of peace and prosperity when the foundations of Manchu rule under the Qing dynasty were ...
Kernels of Resistance
(2024)
The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and won
Right before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala’s legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modified ...
Possessed Landscapes
(2026)
When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution—and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry of ceasefires and ...
Satirical Tibet
(2025)
What does comedy look like when the wrong punchline can land you in jail?Humor has long been a vital, if underrecognized, component of Tibetan life. In recent years, alongside well-publicized struggles for religious freedom ...
Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
(2024)
Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growthSouth Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's ...
Observing the Unseen
(2026)
Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiry What did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing the Unseen explores how ...