Christina Schwenkel, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Vietnam .

Christina Schwenkel is currently organizing an international conference with Professors Lan Duong and David Biggs entitled "Agent Orange: Landscape, Body, Image," to be held at the California Museum of Photography in May 2009. Other recent activities include talks and presentations at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; RMIT Hanoi;  Performance Studies International in Copenhagen; the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in conjunction with the University of Utah, among others. Her latest publications include:

• The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation. Indiana University Press, 2009.
  
  
• "From John McCain to Abu Ghraib: Tortured Bodies and Historical Unaccountability of US Empire in Vietnam." American Anthropologist 111, no. 1 (2009).
  
  
• "‘The Camera was Our Weapon’: News Production and Representation of War in Vietnam." In The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Global Perspectives. S. Elizabeth Bird, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
  
  
•  "Su van dong xa hoi chu nghia: Lao dong xuat khau va nhung trao doi xuyen quoc gia giua Viet Nam va Dong Duc" [Socialist Mobilities: Export Labor and Transnational Exchanges between Vietnam and Former East Germany]. Ho Chi Minh City. Forthcoming.
  
  
• "Exhibiting War, Reconciling Pasts: Journalistic Modes of Representation and Transnational Commemoration in Contemporary Vietnam." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 3, no.1 (2008):36-77.
  
  
• "Recombinant History: Transnational Practices of Memory and Knowledge Production in Contemporary Vietnam." Cultural Anthropology 21, no. 1 (2006):3-30.