CO-EDITED SPECIAL ISSUE

Saphan, L., & Pipitone, J. M. (2022). “New York City in Transformation,” Streetnotes, 29, 1-169.

PEER-REVIEWED

Saphan, L. (forthcoming). “The Shifting Tides of Cambodian Cinema: A Survey of Films Since 1960” in Film in South East Asia Views from the Region: Essays on Film in Ten South East Asia-Pacific Countries, edited by David Hanan, Bangkok: SEAPAVAA. (Book chapter peer reviewed and accepted)

Saphan, L., Pipitone, J. M, Perez-Garcia, E., Vieira, A., & Francisco, R. (2022). “Outdoor Dining and the Transformation of Public Space in New York City,” Streetnotes, 29, 40-72.

Saphan, L. & Cabrera, K., (2019). “Negotiating the Use of New York City’s Shared Public Spaces,” Streetnotes, 26, 65-84.

Saphan, L., Salas M., & Rozario C., (2016). “Bryant Park, New York: Strangers in Public Spaces,” Streetnotes, 25, 260-271.

Saphan, L. (2015). “From Modern Rock to Postmodern Hard Rock: Cambodian Alternative Music Voices,” Ethnic Studies Review, 35, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring): 23–40.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Saphan, L. & Hun, N. (2021). “Popular and Political Songwriting in Cambodia: From Sihanouk’s Prewar Golden Age to Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge” in Hun, N., Kim, M., Lee, Y., Nelson, R., Oum, R. O., & Saphan, L., The Golden Age of Cambodian Popular Music, Kim, M. (Ed.), Seoul: Hyunsilbook, 41-81.

Saphan, L. (2017). “Cambodian Popular Musical Influences from the 1950s to the Present Day” in Asian Popular Music History, edited by Shin, H. & Lee, K. Seoul, South Korea: Sungkonghoe University Press, 262-296.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Saphan, L. (2022). “What’s in a Name” in Dreams for Our Children: Immigrant Letters to the Future, Banjo, O (Ed.), Minneapolis, Wise Ink Creative Publishing, 3-10. [Creative writing about immigration experience].

Saphan L. & Cabrera, K. (2020). “The Street Vendors Who Make Christmas For New York City,” Zocalo Public Square, December.

Saphan, L. (2017). “Cambodia’s Collective Memory and Healing Through Public Art: For Those Who Are No Longer Here,” Documentation Center of Cambodia Print, December, Phnom Penh Cambodia, Catalog, 16-21.

Saphan, L. (2016). “Gendered Modernity in Cambodia: The Rise of Women in the Music Industry,” Khmer Scholar Journal, online.

Saphan, L. (2015). “Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll film study guide,” for college students and faculty, Spring, Argot Pictures.

Saphan, L. (2014). Contributor to Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora, Pelaud, I. H., Duong, L., Lam, M/ B., & Nguyen, K. L. (Eds.), Seattle: University of Washington Press, 30, 76-79, 240.

Saphan, L. (2013). “Norodom Sihanouk and the Political Agenda of Cambodian Music, 1955–1970,” International Institute for Asian Studies, 64, 4-5.

Saphan, L. (2004). “Les vatts en banlieue parisienne” In Le Paris Asie, 150 ans de présence de la Chine, de l'Indo-Chine, du Japon dans la capitale, eds. Blanchard, P. & Deroo, É. Paris: La Découverte, 180.

FILMS

Saphan, L. (forthcoming). Executive Producer: Two Shadows (working title) directed by Sreyleak Prum, Anti-Archive production, shooting to start in October 2023 in Cambodia. A short film about two female friends trying to make it in the film industry.

Saphan, L. (2024). Executive Producer: Arrangements directed by Thavary Krouch. It is about two estranged cousins who reunite for a wedding. Old resentments and awkward tensions arise as they spend a day shopping for wedding floral arrangements. Set in Chicago, IL, shooting summer 2023.

Saphan, L. (2019) Executive Producer: Chhem, by Sopoi Ann and Jean-Philippe Ury (75 min.) Arthouse psychological drama. Associate producer. 

Saphan, L. (2016). Director: Nate from Lowell, MA. (7:07minutes). About the importance of archiving memory through the lens of a record collector who preserved Cambodian popular music history.

Saphan, L. (2015). Executive producer: Three Wheels, directed by Kavich Neang (20 minutes). Khmer with English subtitles. 58-year-old Nath works the night streets of Phnom Penh as a Tuc Tuc mini-cab driver. Lonely and depressed, he is obsessed with a dancer whom he met before the Khmer Rouge period.

Saphan, L. (2014). Associate producer and lead researcher: Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll (105 min.), a documentary directed by John Pirozzi on Cambodian history and popular music. http://www.dtifcambodia.com

Saphan, L. (2006) Art Director: Lettre Filmée. A 20-minute film about the representation of the artist in Cambodia, directed by Christine Bouteiller.