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Peer-reviewed article

Witnessing Empire’s End: Malayan Refugees’ Anticolonial Futures in Wartime India, 1942–1946.” Journal of Asian Studies 84, no. 2 (2025): 382–405.

Essays

Emergency Unending,” Los Angeles Review of Books (2025).

Sea Change,” Mekong Review 33 (2023): 14.

Distaste,” Little Study 2 (2020): 7–10. (Live reading at “Imaginary Tasting Menu,” Singapore Writers Festival, November 7, 2020.)

“Military Fatigue,” Mynah 2 (2017): 190–202.

Book reviews

Review of Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia, by Vineeta Sinha (Berghahn Books, 2023). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 46, no. 1 (2025): 169–172.

Review of Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire, by Yael Berda (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Law and History Review 41, no. 3 (2023): 849–851.

Review of Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya, by Arunima Datta (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 23, no. 3 (2022).

 

A coastal scene with a rocky shoreline on the left, waves crashing against the rocks, a calm ocean extending to the horizon, and a distant green mountain under a partly cloudy sky. Christmas Island.

A view of the Indian Ocean from Ethel Beach on Christmas Island