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.

Features

Resilience and peace are two sides of the same coin
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