She published three books on Vietnamese religions. Later she focused on various aspects of the war in Vietnam and translated and studied an account of the massacre committed by the Communist forces in Hue during the Tet Offensives in 1968. She has published in the Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Social History, Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, The New York Times, and other venues. Her most recent book, Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965-1975, is forthcoming in 2018 from Cambridge University Press. Her next project is about the formation of Ho Chi Minh’s cult.