Recently, I was asked to present a “meet the author” talk to some students at Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology. My…
From July 2021 to June 2025, I will be running an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, FT200100346 Cultural values, birth and parenting: Reproductive health and…
Books 2014. Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos. NUS Press, Singapore. 2021. Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village. University of Hawai’i…
In 2018, I travelled to Laos for fieldwork in Kandon village accompanied by my husband Ed Annand (infectious disease epidemiologist and veterinarian) and our two…
I was recently interviewed by the wonderful Natali Pearson, of Sydney University’s Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. We talked about Lao socialism, facing uncomfortable truths in…