Books
Instructions for (Erasing) Empire: English, Domestication, and the US Colonization of the Philippines (under contract)
Articles, Book Chapters, Essays
(Forthcoming) “Infinite Life, Infinite Light” in Emergent Dharma: An Anthology of Asian
American Feminist Buddhist Women. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.
2024 (third author with Sachi Edwards, Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa-Baker, Asha Shipman,
Simran Kaur-Colbert, Vineet Chandar, & Monica Sanford) “Building Dharmic* Solidarity to
Expand the Discourse About Religious Diversity in US Higher Education.” Equity & Excellence in
Education. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2024.2387557
2024 “The Reincarnation of the Asian Buddhist Peril: White Christian Nationalism
and Contestations of Mindfulness in K-12 Public Schools,” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and
Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2024.2348833
2024 “Socially Engaged Buddhism.” Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism. Edited
by Ann Gleig and Scott Mitchell. New York: Oxford University Press.
2021 “A Theory of Reciting as Asian American Buddhist Practice: The Young Buddhist Editorial as
a Discursive Site of Recitation.” Journal of Global Buddhism .
2021 “American Cultural Baggage: The Racialized Secularization of Mindfulness in
Schools.” Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition. Edited by Richard K. Payne. Boulder, CO: Shambhala.
2021 “Taiwan’s Mandarin-English Bilingual Policy: Signaling Independence and
Settler Coloniality.” American Quarterly. 73(2): 355-361.
2021 "Taiwan and English Bilingualism: International Competition and
Competing Colonialisms." World Englishes: Ideologies. Edited by Rani Rubdy and T. Ruanni F.
Tupas. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2020 "The 'Native English Speaker' as Indigenous Replacement: California English Learner
Classification Policies and Settler Grammar Expressions of Immigrant Nationhood."
Educational Studies, 56(3): 233-247. DOI: 10.1080/00131946.2020.1745805
2018 "Animality and Detainment for US Security: Transcending Species Borders for the Liberation
of All Sentient Beings." Rondo, 2: 18-25.
2017 (with Brian Hioe and Wen Liu) "Collective Statement on Taiwan Independence: Building
Global Solidarity and Rejecting US military Empire." American Quarterly, 69(3): 465-468.
2017 "Resisting the Coloniality of English: A Research Review of Strategies." CATESOL Journal,
29(1): 111-132.
2016 "What is the Sound of One Invisible Hand Clapping: Neoliberalism, the Invisibility of Asian
and Asian American Buddhists, and Secular Mindfulness in Education." Handbook of
Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement. Edited by Ron Purser, David Forbes, and
Adam Burke. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
2015 "The Coloniality of Neoliberal Global English: The Enduring Structures of American Colonial
English Instruction in Puerto Rico and the Philippines." L2 Journal, 7(3): 123-145.
DOI:10.5070/L27323549
2014 (with Cristina González) "Education and Empire: Colonial Universities in Mexico, India, and
the United States." Center for Studies in Higher Education, Research and Occasional Papers
Series. 7(14): 1-16.
2013 "Colonial Lessons: Racial Politics of Comparison and the Development of American
Education Policy in the Philippines." The Other Students: Filipino Americans, Education, and
Power. Edited by Rick Bonus and Dina Maramba. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.
Public Engagement
2022 " How Mainstream Mindfulness Erases Its Buddhist Roots." The Progressive,
February. https://progressive.org/latest/how-mainstream-mindfulness-erases-buddhist- roots-hsu-220211/
2021 " 'Those Poor Women': Awareness of Patriarchy as a Global and Racial System." Lion’s
Roar, April. https://www.lionsroar.com/those-poor-women/
2018 "Let’s Continue Aaron’s Work. Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly, Winter.
https://www.lionsroar.com/lets-continue-aarons-work/
2018 (with Hondo Lobley) "Advice for Modern America, From When Buddhism Was Seen as a
National Threat." LionsRoar.com, Summer. https://www.lionsroar.com/advice-for-modern-
america-from-the-painful-history-of-american-buddhism/
2017 "Lineage of Resistance: When Asian American Buddhists Confront White Supremacy."
Turning Wheel. Buddhist Peace Fellowship. https://buddhistpeacefellowship.org/lineage-of-
resistance/buddhistpeacefellowship.org/lineage-of-resistance/
2016 "We’ve Been Here All Along." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly, Winter.
https://www.lionsroar.com/weve-been-here-all-along/
2017 "We’ve been here all along." Cross-posted HuffPost.com
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/weve-been-here-all-
along_us_5a1324d7e4b0bfa88c1c1dc3