My chapter in the Cambridge History of the Vietnam War (2025) explores how the Vietnam influenced global protest movements in the iconic year of 1968, when people around the world mobilized against imperialism, authoritarianism, and war.

Published in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2024), this article examines Thich Nhat Hanh’s early life and advocacy for a Buddhist organization that could support nation-building and help bring peace and democracy to Vietnam.

My chapter in Republican Vietnam, 1963-1975: War, Society, Diaspora (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023) examines the history of the School of Youth for Social Service, founded in wartime South Vietnam as a pioneering model of socially engaged Buddhism.

A personal piece published in On Being (2016) honoring my mother’s history and legacy as a postwar refugee. A celebration of the human spirit and our ability to transform suffering so that future generations can flourish.

I sat down with Tricycle Talks to discuss Vietnam’s decolonial era, the origins of engaged Buddhism, and the religious and political worlds that shaped Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

My feature interview inTricycle: The Buddhist Review (Aug 2024) on the historical background of Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the most influential figures in contemporary Buddhism.