I am an interdisciplinary scholar of environment, religion, and society in Myanmar. Some of my recent work explores the intersections of capitalist development, sacred space making, and human-animal kinship networks in Myanmar's prosperity Buddhist cults.

Broadly, my interests include:
  • Contemporary Buddhism and the environment
  • Environmental education and governance
  • Urban geographies and environmental politics
  • Migration, diaspora, and socio-ecological belonging 
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Academic Publications

Spirits and Serpents; Buddhist Prosperity in the Snake Temples (Mway Paya) of Myanmar.
"Indigenous Future(s) and Learning(s) Taking Place" Eds. Lopez and Coello. London: Routledge, 2020.
Environmental Learning in Myanmar; Governance, Resistance, Literacy. Parami Journal of Education, 2020. 
Edwards, K. A., Randall, E. A., Tu-Maung, N., Sannino, D. R., Feder, S., Angert, E. R., & Kraft, C. E. (2019). Periplasmic binding protein-based magnetic isolation and detection of thiamine in complex biological matrices. Talanta, 120168.

​Edwards, K. A., Tu‐Maung, N., Cheng, K., Wang, B., Baeumner, A. J., & Kraft, C. E. (2017). Thiamine Assays—Advances, Challenges, and Caveats. ChemistryOpen.

Popular Publications

Wavering at the Turning Point; Myanmar's response to COVID-19 in March 2020
in Oxford TeaCircle. April 2020
Myanmar's Earth Champions Raise Awareness About Climate Change
in Frontier Myanmar. November 2019
Conserving Wildlife, Preserving Traditions
in Frontier Myanmar. August 2019.​
Problems of Place: In the Language of Plants
in Environmental History Now. July 2019.
Making Kin with Serpents in Myanmar's Snake Temples
in Edge Effects Magazine. June 2019.
Nagas and Nats: Inside the Snake Temples of Myanmar
in Frontier Myanmar. January 2019.

Translations

Pyitinehtaung, a short story by Ma Chinthe
in Aruna Global South, June 2021.
Translated to English from the original Burmese 

Features

Resilience and peace are two sides of the same coin
Banner photo courtesy and copyright of Matthew Venker.