Her research interests focus on post-Pol Pot Cambodia, and the process of social and cultural reconstruction in the aftermath of genocide. All her projects look at Cambodian families divided by war, displacement and migration, and the efforts to maintain family ties attenuated by time, space, politics, and very different economic experiences. Her current project looks at Christian conversion among Cambodia’s youth, who have grown up in a world defined by the violence of global capitalism rather than radical social engineering. More generally, she is interested in migration of all kinds, Buddhism and everyday life, narrative processes, and the challenges of representation, whether ethnographic, photographic, theatrical, or curatorial.