Rosalie Metro is an assistant teaching professor in the College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She researches conflicts that arise in the classroom around history, identity, and language, both in Southeast Asia and in the United States. She is the author of Teaching US History Thematically: Document-Based Lessons for the Secondary Classroom (Teachers College Press, 2017) and a novel, Have Fun in Burma (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018). Learn about her work at rosaliemetro.com, and follow her @rose_metro.
Rosalie Metro
Articles
Novel Ways of Remembering Thai History: On Two New Books About Bangkok
Rosalie Metro reviews Emma Larkin’s “Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok” and Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, and Chiara Natalucci’s “The King of Bangkok.”
Comparative Authoritarianism: On Vicente L. Rafael’s “The Sovereign Trickster” and Erin Murphy’s “Burmese Haze”
Rosalie Metro reviews Vicente L. Rafael’s “The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte” and Erin Murphy’s “Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening ― and Closing.”
White Travel Writers, Please Stop Saying You Fell in Love with a Country Full of Brown People
Rosalie Metro considers the historical connotation of travel writers saying they "fell in love" with a country.
An Unflinching Take on Love and War: Charmaine Craig’s “Miss Burma”
Rosalie Metro reviews Charmaine Craig's "Miss Burma."
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