Photographic and spatial significations of nationalism, religion, biography and daily life
Material and visual approaches to wartime and postwar histories in Asia and Europe
Materiality and doctrine in histories of religious visual production and reception (Christianity and Buddhism)
Aesthetics and visual effects in missionary and military activities in Southeast and East Asia
Histories of psychoanalysis in colonial and "non-Western" contexts
History of photography and film in Southeast and East Asia
Traditional and modern performing arts in Southeast and East Asia
Book review: "Arts du Vietnam: Nouvelles Approches by Caroline Herbelin, Béatrice Wisniewski, and Françoise Dalex," Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 12 No. 3, Summer 2017(pp. 74-78)
Research article: "Icons in Disguise: Vietnamese Resistance Figures Hoàng Hoa Thám and Ba Biểu in French Colonial Images and Related Texts, 1909-2007," Trans-Asia Photography Review, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Fall 2012: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0003.103
Vietnamese-to-English translation: Nguyễn Ðức Hiệp, "Photography in Vietnam from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Start of the Twentieth,"Trans-Asia Photography Review, Vol. 4, Issue 2,Spring 2014: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0004.204
“(Im)possible Codifications? Story-making in Furuya Seiichi’s Image Sequences, 1985-2014,” for the seminar “Inventing Japaneseness: Painting, Photography and Print, 1868-1940,” Dr. Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University, June 14, 2017
“If You Give Three Loud Screams, I’ll Come and Help You: Changing Stories around an Image of the Rattersdorf-Köszeg Border in the Photographic Books of Furuya Seiichi, 1985-2014,” The Heisei Era in Retrospect: Major Trends in Post-Industrial and Post-Consumer Japan, the third biennial conference of the Israeli Association for Japanese Studies, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, June 13, 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU2v0WZ28Aw
“Same Heroics, Different Heroes: Uses of ‘Rebel’ Images and French Aesthetics from Vietnamese Colonization to Reunification,” for the course: “Colonial and Postcolonial Photography: Photography in Asia,” Dr. Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University, June 7, 2017
On North Vietnamese perspectives and East German representations (panelist), Pilots in Pajamas (Piloten im Pyjama), org. Center for Documentary Arts and Research and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Center, University of California at Santa Cruz, February 19, 2016
“Introduction to Werner Schroeter’s Willow Springs,” Transgressive Cross-Currents in Film Programming: New York and Berlin, 1968-1989, org. Marc Francis, Wednesday Night Cinema Society, University of California at Santa Cruz, November 3 2015
“Lives and Deaths of a Colonial Vietnamese Hero-Villain: Ba Biểu in the Postcards of Pierre Dieulefils and Related Texts, ca. 1909-2007,” Trans-Asia Photography Review Symposium, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, October 14, 2011
Material and visual approaches to wartime and postwar histories in Asia and Europe
Materiality and doctrine in histories of religious visual production and reception (Christianity and Buddhism)
Aesthetics and visual effects in missionary and military activities in Southeast and East Asia
Histories of psychoanalysis in colonial and "non-Western" contexts
History of photography and film in Southeast and East Asia
Traditional and modern performing arts in Southeast and East Asia
Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence Award, Arts Division, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2017
George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, 1999-2000
Henry Rosovsky Travel Grant for Undergraduate Thesis Research, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, 1997