Allison Truitt is Professor and Chair of Anthropology as well as Director of Asian Studies at Tulane University. She is the author of Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City (University of Washington Press 2013) and Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South (University of Washington Press 2021). Along with Jana Lipman, she will be working on an edited volume based on papers delivered at a symposium entitled “Stories of Refugeeness: 50 Years of Vietnamese Diasporic, Global, and Coastal Connections,” organized at Tulane University in January 2025.

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