Chu Paing successfully defended her dissertation "Intense Engagements: Social Media Activism in the Aftermath of the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar," on May 16, to a group of 30 enthusiastic attendees and her doctoral committee: Professor Carla Jones (advisor), Professor Alison Cool, Professor Emily Hue (University of California Riverside), Professor Carole McGranahan, and Professor Karen Strassler (City University of New York, Queens College).