Hi All! I am excited to share that my essay "Anthropology of the Hometown" is now live in the American Anthropologist. I argue that doing anthropology of the hometown contributes to broader efforts of disciplinary redress and decolonization. OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1111/aman...

Learn about the Lao Community in the US at the LaoAmerica travelling exhibit we are bringing to Purdue University this week. Our creative lab called The ALab is hosting the exhibit.

PhD student Olivia Palepoi and I are giving a talk tomorrow about the creative lab called The ALab that we are building at Purdue. To learn more about our lab, pls visit our website in progress, www.the-alab.com. Side info: "Alab" means "flame" in Filipino.

One of the challenges of studying the hometown is dealing with peer reviewers who get upset by a writing style that is deemed to be "too personal." Oh well. Got past a peer reviewer who caved in in the end.

HI all! I'm happy to share with everyone my anthropology of the hometown article which is at the intersections of law, inheritance, war, kinship, migration, and colonial legacy. The full article is open access at: doi.org/10.3390/huma...

Hi all! I am excited to share that my latest article, "Raciolinguistic Disposability: The Experience of Filipino Teachers in China Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic," is now out. It's open access. doi.org/10.1080/1444...

Found something uniquely American at the hardware store--a toilet plunger shaped like a gun 😂