University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student, Ethnic Studies
About
One year after her Cham-French Vietnamese mother and American father evacuated during the Fall of Saigon, Julie was born in the United States.
Since 1999, she's studied the Cham and their Austronesian, Hindu, and Muslim kingdom of Champa, which thrived for 1,500 years in present-day Viet Nam. Her work addresses Cham origins, religious forms, mortuary rituals, matrilinealism, and the history of conquest, colonialism, war, and emigration from Viet Nam and Cambodia. She's interested in the intersections of Cham historical memory, ethnic identity, spirituality, and acculturation. She also focuses upon gender, remembrance, and mourning in Island/Southeast Asia, postwar exodus, postcolonialism, critical auto/ethnographic theory, and documentary filmmaking and photography.
Julie's experience includes 13 years of humanistic photography, postwar study tours, oral histories of survivors and veterans of wars in Viet Nam and El Salvador, and inclusion in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace.' Julie continues to edit the documentary she filmed in 2006 of her Hindu Cham grandmother's second burial.
Julie is a Chancellor's Fellow at UC Berkeley.
Previous Education:
2005-06, fellow at UMass-Boston's William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences.
2000, BA (art, social/cultural history, and documentary production/theory) from The Evergreen State College.
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