• "Building Against the Constraints of the University: Teaching Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies at a HSI/AANAPISI and PWI" (Forthcoming 2024) in AAPI Nexus Journal: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice and Community.

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• “Indigenous Asian Muslim Refugees: The Complex Identities of Cham Americans” (2022). Doctoral Dissertation, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Department of American Studies.

​Abstract:
Cham peoples are a hyper invisibilized community who are generally not seen or are misunderstood in public platforms. Although Cham peoples have multiple identities as Indigenous Asian Muslim refugees, or children of refugees, we are never viewed as bearing these multiple identities. Instead, we are viewed as bearing only one identity and are singularly racialized in that capacity. In this way, our intersectional identity is erased. This dissertation argues that Cham intersectional identity is erased through a transnational network by which state and social institutions in the U.S., Vietnam, Cambodia, and the United Nations reduce and homogenize our intersectional identity, maintaining our invisibility in national and international platforms. This dissertation argues that social and state institutions socially construct, racialize, and erase our intersectional identity through multiple mediums, including through institutional labeling, cultural representations of Champa at museum and tourist sites and mass media, and racial stereotypes. Utilizing a Critical Refugee Studies lens and Yến Lê Espiritu’s conception of “critical juxtaposition,” this dissertation critically juxtaposes two social categories, “Indigenous” and “refugee,” which are often viewed as separate identities. As our communities are not nationally or internationally recognized as Indigenous peoples of present-day Vietnam, this dissertation interrogates how nomenclature plays a role in erasing our Indigenous identity and perpetuating colonialism. Laws meant to protect marginalized communities privilege the nation-state as the governing body determines who is and is not worthy of the state’s protection. This dissertation also critically juxtaposes two other social categories, “Asian” and “Muslim,” and shows how we are racialized in both capacities. As Asian Americans and Muslims, we experience both forms of racialization successively in the same space. In this way, as perceived Asians, we are viewed as model minorities until we are racialized as Muslim terrorists. The Cham Muslim American experience shows how Muslims are pathologized against Asian American stereotypes. Despite these multiple racializations, Cham Muslim American communities have forged a collective identity and fight against assimilation by emphasizing Muslim identity. In addition, within Muslim spaces, this dissertation discusses authenticity politics of Muslimness and Chamness, as Cham Muslims and other Asian Muslims are not viewed as authentically Muslim by other Arab Muslim missionaries. By understanding the complexity of Cham identities, we can better support social justice and anti-racist initiatives that may overlook or neglect smaller invisible communities.

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• “The Nexus of Asian Indigeneity, Refugee Status, and Asian Settler Colonialism in the Case of Indigenous Cham Muslim Refugees.” Amerasia Journal 47, no. 1 (2021): 112-118.

Abstract:

Cham peoples are typically recognized as ethnic or religious minorities in Southeast Asia and the U.S. We are never recognized as Indigenous on any national or international platform despite our Indigeneity to the Kingdom of Champa (present-day central and southern Vietnam). This essay examines the complex positions of Cham refugees of the Vietnam War and Khmer Rouge genocide who necessarily resettled in the U.S. Utilizing Yến Lê Espiritu’s concept of “critical juxtaposition,” this essay critically juxtaposes two Cham identities, often viewed as separate identities: “Indigenous” and “refugee.” As Indigenous Asian peoples in diaspora, Cham peoples complicate the discussion of Asian settler colonialism.

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• “Guest Editor’s Introduction.” History & Perspectives: The Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America – Special Issue on Chinese Cambodian Americans (2020): ix-x.​​ 

  • ​This Special Issue on Chinese Cambodian Americans examines the experiences of the Chinese Khmer diaspora.

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• Review of The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad edited by Gordon Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. China Review International, 25, no. 3&4 (2020): 247-251.

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• “The Perpetual Outsider.” Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism, edited by Nikki Khanna (New York: NYU Press, 2020).

  • This essay discusses Dr. Mostiller's experiences as a first-time mom raising a mixed-race child and their experiences of colorism and anti-Blackness within the Southeast Asian American community.

• “Cham Muslims.” Encyclopedia of Asian American Religious Cultures, edited by Jonathan H. X. Lee, Fumitaka Matsuka, Ronald Nakasone, and Edmond Yee (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2015).

  • This encyclopedia entry offers a synopsis of the Santa Ana Cham Muslim community in California, established by Cham refugees of the Khmer Rouge genocide and Vietnam War in the early 1980s.