About me:
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I'm an archivist, filmmaker, and scholar whose work focuses on Asian diasporas. I preserve their collective histories and experiences, document their stories of displacement, and examine how these distributed communities of migrants transmit their material cultures and cultural practices across time and space through multigenerational relationships, fictive kinships, and professional networks. My research includes the analysis of gendered narratives about dislocation and relocation with a variety of sources: personal archives, cultural heritage organizations, diasporic food practices, and historically Asian American sororities. I collect oral histories and conduct archival research and ethnographic fieldwork.
I'm also the writer and director of several documentary films, including the award-winning Homecoming about my grandmother from Malaysia. My films have screened internationally at film festivals, academic conferences, art galleries, public libraries, and on television. I have received numerous fellowships, grants, and awards from organizations such as the American Library Association, Society of American Archivists, and American Anthropology Association. My publications have appeared in library and archives journals.
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