Book
2024. The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press). Link
Peer-reviewed journal articles
2024. "Strategic Occidentalism: America in Vietnamese Anticolonial Thought," Theory and Event 27, no. 4: 553-572. Link
2024. "Anticolonial Audiences and Revolutionary Theater in the Vietnamese Maquis," Philosophy and Global Affairs 4, no. 1: 183-206. PDF
2022. “To Tighten or Relax Social Bonds?: Vietnamese Criticism and Self-Criticism, and Liberal Self-Exploration,” European Journal of Political Theory. PDF
2022. "Violence and Vietnamese Anticolonialism," New Political Science 44, no. 1: 42-57. Also appears in Violence: A Reappraisal (Routledge, 2023), edited by Kevin Duong. PDF
2020. “Nguyễn An Ninh’s Anti-Colonial Thought: A New Account of National Shame,” Polity 52, no. 4: 521-550. PDF
2019. “Phan Chu Trinh’s Democratic Confucianism,” The Review of Politics 81, no. 4: 597-620. PDF
2019. “Montaigne in American Political Theory: Two Generations,” Montaigne Studies 31, no. 1: 97-110. With John Christian Laursen. PDF
2017. “Empires for Peace: Denis Veiras’s Borrowings from Garcilaso de la Vega,” The European Legacy 22, no. 4: 427-442. With John Christian Laursen. PDF
Book chapter
2022. “The Mentor and the Mentee: Competing Visions in Vietnamese Political Thought,” in Globalizing Political Theory, edited by Smita Rahman, Katherine Gordy, and Shirin Deylami, 11-22. New York: Routledge. PDF
Book reviews
2024. "Review of Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France," Southeast Asian Studies. Forthcoming.
2019. "Sources of firepower for weaponized rights," (review of Rights as Weapons) Ethics and International Affairs. Link
2017. "Review of Ideologies of experience: Trauma, failure, deprivation, and the abandonment of the self," Contemporary Political Theory. PDF
Public writing
2025. "Taking Asian and African Agency Seriously," Discourse on Anticolonialism. Link
2025. "Shame and Revolution," Aeon. Link
2025. "A Vietnamese Arrière-Boutique,” in Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran (Eds.), The Colors of April: Fiction on the Vietnam War 50 Years Later. Three Rooms Press.
2023. “Making Sense of Thich Tri Quang: The Machiavellianism of Buddhist Political Theory," Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. Translated into Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia, and Filipino. Link
2022. "Truong Xuan, Eternal Spring," A Broad and Ample Road. Translated into Mandarin. Link
2020. "National Shame: How We (Americans) can learn from Nguyễn An Ninh," US-Vietnam Research Center. Translated into Vietnamese. Link