He is the author of ‘Paint the Trains Red’: Labor, Nationalism, and Vietnamese Railroad Workers in French Colonial Indochina, 1898 – 1945 (forthcoming), and such articles as “On the Intimate Edge of Empire: Challenging Representations of Colonial Vietnam’s Métis Community,” “Automobiles and Anomie in French Colonial Indochina,” “Vinh, the Seed that Would Grow Red: The Making of a Revolutionary City in French Indochina,” and “S’adapter pour ne pas être expulsé: les manifestations paysannes de Vinh en 1905” [Conformity over Eviction: Peasant Protest in Vinh in 1905]. He is currently engaged in a project that will utilize a GIS (Geographical Information System) to re-examine the 1930-1931 uprising known as the Nghe Tinh Soviets.