Research Projects
BELONGING AND COMMUNITY
“The Sensual Labor of Claiming Place” in Christine Bacareza Balance and Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns (ed.), California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary (University of Hawaii Press, 2020).
“California Dreaming: Asian American Arts, Culture, and Place,” USC Visions and Voices, June 1, 2021.
“Lifeways of Intimacy Under Duress” Amerasia Journal (2021). Vol 46, no 1, pp 1-3.
“Queer of Color Estrangement and Belonging” History of Queer America ed. by Don Romesburg (Routledge, 2018), pp. 262-275
"Sexuality, Identity and the Uses of History" in Lotus of Another Color: Writings of South Asian Lesbians and Gay Men. Rakesh Ratti, ed. (Boston: Alyson, 1993)
Asian American History: Creating Community and Confronting Hostility and Violence
“In the Pandemic’s Wake: Social Change and Reflection with Asian American and Pacific Islander Leaders,“ Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Asian Pacific American Center, October 18, 2022.
“Clothing, Coding, and Defiance in the 19th Century,” Autry Museum of the American West, September 22, 2022.
“Plague at the Golden Gate,” PBS American Experience, April 25, 2022.
“Creative and Cultural Leadership” East West Players, July 2, 2020.
Asian Americans PBS Documentary, directed by Renee Tajima Pena aired May 2020.
“Nayan Shah and Candace Brown on Rina Bannerjee” Culture Fix, UCLA Fowler Museum, May 2020.
“EPIDEMIC OF HATE: Stories of Racism, Resiliency, and Resistance in Asian American Communities,” University of Maryland, May 28, 2020.
“Establishing Communities, 1848-1941” Making of the United States: Asian American and Pacific Islander Theme Essay (National Park Service and Organization of American Historians, 2018).
“Regulating Intimacy and Immigration” Major Problems in Asian American History ed by Lon Kurashige and Alice Yang (Cengage, 2016) p. 156-168.
“Race-ing Sex” Intimate Matters at Twenty-Five Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies volume 34 (2014), no 3, pp. 26-36.
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
Review of Amy Bhatt and Nalini Iyer, Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest (University of Washington, 2013) Western Historical Quarterly Autumn 2014, pp. 351-52.
Review of Howard Markel, When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics that Have Invaded America since 1900 and the Fears They Have Unleashed (New York: Pantheon, 2004) Bulletin of the History of Medicine (2008), volume 82, no 2 pp 475-477.
"Undertow" in Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung, edited by Helen Lee and Kerri Sakamoto (Toronto: Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, 2002), pp. 102-103.
“Opaque Desires” Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication, volume 2, number 2 (2000), pp. 168-169.
“Staging Dogeaters” Journal of Asian American Studies volume 2, number 2 (June 1999)
"Chinese Bachelor Society" in George Haggerty ed., The Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures (Garland Publishing, 1999)