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Social Sciences Division
Anthropology Department
Doctoral Student
Graduate
Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast)
Social Sciences 1
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My doctoral project maps the relationship between Hmong shamanism, landscapes, healing, and the more-than-human in Hmong refugee diasporas across the United States and Southeast Asia. Through ethnography, I examine how these complex material, spiritual, and spatial worlds come together in moments of healing and medicine.
Education:
- Master of Environmental Management, Yale University
- Bachelor of Arts in Geography, Gustavus Adolphus College
- School for International Training - Study Abroad in Nepal
anthropology of shamanism(s); medical anthropology; geography; Hmong studies; biocultural conservation; religion and ecology; human/nonhuman relations; highland southeast asia/zomia; diaspora; colonialism and fugitivity; state and statelessness
Courses Taught (through TAships):
- UC Santa Cruz: Introduction to Disability Studies; Cultures of Sustainability and Social Justice; Introduction to Archaeology; Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- Yale University: Primate Conservation; Social Sciences for Environmental Managers; Perspectives on Environmental Leadership (Systems Change)
- Gustavus Adolphus College: Introduction to World Geography; Scientific Causes of Global Climate Change
2026. INTPART Fellowship (International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation) for Strengthening Environmental Anthropology Research, University of Oslo and Research Council of Norway
2025. Junior Scholar Research Grant, Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions, University of California Santa Cruz
2025. SEALIVES and Histories Grant, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of California Berkeley
2025, 2024. Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California
2024. Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) Working Group Grant: Religion and Indigeneity in the Pacific and Asian Americas, University of California Berkeley
2024, 2023. Law, Environment, and Animals Program (LEAP) Research Fellowship, Yale Law School
2023. Mobley Environmental Humanities Grant, Yale University
2023. Yale School of Environment Summer Research Fellowship, Yale University
2022. Fulbright Taiwan Award, U.S. Department of State (declined)
2021, 2019. Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship, University of Washington
2020. Academic Assistantship (Independent Research), Department of Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences, Gustavus Adolphus College
2019. Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholar, U.S. Department of State
Contributing Author. The SAGE Encyclopedia on Refugee Studies (Volume Set II). Sage Publications Inc.
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