Research Interests
History & Social Studies Education
Burma/Myanmar
Refugee & Immigrant Education
Curriculum Studies
Qualitative Research Methods
TESOL
Standards-Based Assessment for Learning
Discourse Analysis
Social Semiotics
My scholarly work is available on academia.edu and researchgate.com.
Recent Publications
Negotiating for meaning along language borders: Refugee families from Burma/Myanmar in a US public school district. (Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022).
Comparative authoritarianism: Vicente L. Rafael’s “The Sovereign Trickster” and Erin Murphy’s “Burmese Haze.” (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2022)
(with Aung Khine) Putting Down Our Weapons When We Talk About History: Using Primary Sources Documents to Teach Multiple Perspectives on Burma's Past (Bloomsbury, 2022)
(with Will Brehm) The UNESCO Shared Histories project: Paradoxes and possibilities (Teachers College Press, 2022)
Emerging alternatives to military “slave education” (Frontier Myanmar, 2021)
I thought I understood parents of language-learners. Then I became one. (EdWeek, 2021)
The third face of education: Moving beyond the good/bad binary in conflict and post-conflict societies (Compare, 2020)
(with Felicitas MacGilchrist) Trickbox of memory: Essays on power and disorderly pasts (Punctum, 2020)
Humane assessment shouldn’t happen only during a pandemic. (Inside Higher Education, 2020)
A missed opportunity for schoolroom reform (Frontier Myanmar, 2019)
The white gunman, the anti-Semitic entrepreneur, and other dilemmas of a history textbook author (Social Education, 2019)
We need to talk about the consulting industry in educational development (CIES Perspectives, 2019)