She is a political ethnographer who studies the interaction between migration, performance, and politics amongst Burmese refugees. Her research and teaching interests span the subdisciplines of political ethnography, critical political theory, performance theory, mobilities studies, aesthetics and international relations with a particular emphasis on refugee politics along the Thai-Myanmar border. During the NEH Summer Institute, she hopes to gain a deeper perception of Buddhist aesthetics and politics for a book project. She also looks forward to knowledge and intellectual community at the summer institute to enrich her home institution's curriculum offerings in Asian Studies.