Research

“Body of Jade, Pearls of Blood: The Evolution of the King An Dương Story and the Moral Imagination of Fifteenth-century Đại Việt,” Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient 108 (2022): 217-288.

“The Karma of Love: Buddhist Discourse in Confucian and Daoist Voices in Vietnamese Tales of the Marvellous and Strange,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 16.3 (August 2021): 1-77.

“The Guanyin Fertility Cult in Late Imperial China: Repertoires across Domains in the Practice of Popular Religion,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 87.1 (March 2019): 156-190.

“How Not to Become a Ghost: Tales of Female Suicide Martyrs in Sixteenth-Century Vietnamese Transmission of Marvels (truyen ky).” Candi Cann, ed., The Routledge Handbook on Death and the Afterlife (2018), pgs. 240-261.

"Religions of Vietnam," Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices (Gale, 2014).

"Buddhism" and "Early Buddhism", encyclopedia entries for Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An Encyclopedia, Orlando Patterson and J. Geoffrey Golson, eds., (SAGE Reference, 2012).

“Visualization Apocrypha and the Making of Buddhist Deity Cults in Early Medieval China" (PhD dissertation, Indiana University - Bloomington, Department of Religious Studies, advisor Dr. John R. McRae, 2009.

"Religious Traditions of Vietnam: A Brief Survey," in Awakening the Dragon, edited by Dr. Carl Hefner (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1996), pp.18-25. (Museum exhibition pamphlet).

"Vietnamese Buddhist Death Rites: Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts," in Living and Dying in Buddhist Cultures, edited by Dr. David W. Chappell and Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, Department of Asian Studies, 1995), pp. 37-47. (Unpublished conference proceedings).

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