selected publications
peer reviewed journal articles
2023 “Biopolitics in the Vietnamese Coffee Industry,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 18 (1-2): 143-172.
2021 “Complicated Webs: Experiential Risk in the Vietnamese Coffee Industry,” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 44(1): 75-90. (https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12416)
2019 “Café Creatives: Coffee Entrepreneurs in Vietnam,” Education About Asia 24(2): 46-49. (Fall 2019, Special Section: Entrepreneurship in Asia)
2018 “Not Quite in California: Living in Louisiana, Longing for Little Saigon,” Boom California online edition
editor reviewed publications
2020 Jennifer Way and Sarah Grant, “The Politics of Vietnamese Craft: American Diplomacy and Domestication,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 15(2): 152-160.
2019 Francois Carlet-Soulages with Christina Schwenkel and Sarah Grant, “Socialist Modernism: An Architectural Photo Essay of everyday Spaces in Hà Nội,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 14(4): 64-80.
book chapters
In Preparation “Southeast Asia,” in The Handbook of the Anthropology of Food, Cambridge University Press.
2023 “Ecologies of Coffee Sustainability in the Central Highlands,” in Environment and Narrative in Vietnam, eds. Ursula Heise and Chi Pham. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2020 “What’s in a Wet Market? Anthropology of Food and Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic, ed. David Kenley. Ann Arbor: Asia Shorts. Available OA: https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/teaching-about-asia-in-a-time-of-pandemic/.
2020 “Cosmopolitan Coffee Aspirations and Caffeinated Youth in Urban Vietnam,” in Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia, eds. Kenneth Finis, Desiree Remmert, and Mariske Westendorp. New York: Berghahn.
book reviews
Forthcoming Review of Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands, eds. Sarah Turner, Annuska Derks, and Jean François Rosseau (2022) for Journal of Vietnamese Studies
2022 Review of Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea by Sarah Besky (2020) for Exertions (Society for the Anthropology of Work). Available: https://saw.americananthro.org/pub/vje0du2i/release/4
2019 Review of Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology (2017) for Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal 2(1): 38-40. Available: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fb5n1mk
2017 Review of Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Market Place by Ann-Marie Leshkowich (2014) for The Journal of Vietnamese Studies 12(1)1: 167-170.
2016 Review of Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Gender, Career, City by Catherine Earl (2014) for American Anthropologist 118(2): 424-425.
2015 Review of Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town by Nir Avieli (2012) for Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 15(1):94.
popular media (non-peer reviewed)
2023 “One on One Will Frith: Embracing Tradition and Driving Specialty Coffee in Vietnam,” Barista Magazine October-November 2023. Available: https://www.baristamagazine.com/out-now-the-october-november-2023-issue/
2022 “One Size (Does Not) Fit All: The Incommensurability of Sustainability,” 25 Issue 18 November. Available: https://sca.coffee/sca-news/25/issue-18/one-size-does-not-fit-all-the-incommensurability-of-sustainability
2017-18 “Tran Han: Championing Coffee in Vietnam,” Barista Magazine, December-January 2017. Available: http://www.baristamagazine.com/welcome-to-the-december-2017-january-2018-issue-of-barista-magazine/
2017 “Building a Research Based Community for All,” Standart Issue 10, December 2017. Available: https://standartmag.com/products/standart-issue-10
2017 “Field Report: Vietnam,” Barista Magazine, April - May 2017