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Christina Schwenkel is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside and author of The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (Indiana University Press, 2009) and, most recently, Building Socialism: The Aftermath of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam (Duke University Press, 2020). She has published widely on architectures of memory and the material politics of infrastructure decay and destruction during and after the Cold War.