AREA OF INTEREST
- Religion and development in Cambodia
- The impact of colonialism and the Cold War on Cambodia
- Ethnographic practice and theory
EDUCATION
2015 PhD. Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Thesis: Religious Space, Transnational Space, Humanitarian Space: Case Study Of A Faith-Based Organisation On The African Migration Route
2010 MA University of Western Sydney, Australia.
2001 BA Macquarie University, Australia
ACADEMIC CAREER
2018- Researcher, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
2016- 2018 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
2015- Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
2012- Associate doctoral researcher, Le Centre Jacques-Berque pour les études en sciences humaines et sociales, Morocco
PUBLICATIONS
Mongraphs
- Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-Based Organisations: a case on the African migration route, Research in Religion and Development book series, Routledge, 2018
Articles
- “Priests of God: An enchanted humanitarianism on the African migration route”, Journal of International Development, 2017
Book chapters
- “La Présence Protestante au Maroc: une transformation du paysage religieux” in Le Maroc au présent: d’une époque à l’autre, une société en mutation, Dupret, Rhani, Boutaleb (eds), Centre Jacques-Berque / Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud, 2016
- “The ‘C’ word- class, migrants and academia” in D Michell (ed), Bread & Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class, Sense Rotterdam, 2015
Book reviews
- Chakravarti, Leila Zaki(Berghahn Books, 2016) Made in Egypt: gendered identity and aspiration on the globalised shop floor in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 2017
Selected Commentary
- 2017, “Family and Fieldwork: on longing and commitment in knowledge production”, Asia Research Institute Newsletter, no. 39
- 2015, “When you can’t get what you need: response to DIY scholarly careers”, The Research Whisperer, academic research blog
- 2014, “Religious space, humanitarian space”, in M Couldrey& M Herson (eds), Forced Migration Review, issue 48, ‘Faith and responses to displacement’
- 2010, “On the edge of an ambivalent Europe”, Inside Story, online magazine
CONFERENCES ORGANISED
- 'The Politics of Distribution: Migrant Labour, Development and Religious Aid in Asia', 16-17 November 2017, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore