His work looks at popular religion and its relationship to environmental and economic crisis in Northern and Northeastern Thailand. His first book, Ghosts of the New City, examined the relationship between urbanism, ‘animism,’ and haunting in Chiang Mai, and he is currently working on his second book, The Shadow of Sayaburi, which deals with the aftereffects of new hydropower projects along the Mekong River. In addition to these projects, he has also published in Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Quarterly, and others.