My research examines cultural memories of transnational migrant sex workers and explores decolonial ways to memorialize histories of migration and sex work through performance ethnography. My current research looks at various forms of memorials of Japanese sex workers who lived in the transpacific world at the turn of the 20^th century. In my teaching, I strive to unlearn colonial ways of knowing and sharing knowledge as I reflect on my place in Indigenous lands as a context from which we engage with Asia and Asian diaspora. My pedagogical interests include anti-racist pedagogy; indigenizing and diasporizing Asian Studies; and decolonizing international education.