She conducted fieldwork on the social life of money in southern Vietnam (2000-2002), and her current research interest is on financialization following Vietnam’s admittance to the World Trade Organization in 2007. Her publications include “On the Back of a Motorbike” (American Ethnologist, 2008) and “Big Money, New Money, and ATMs” (Research in Economic Anthropology, 2006). In addition to her fieldwork in Vietnam, she has also worked with Vietnamese-American organizations in New Orleans.