LY THUY NGUYEN
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Ly Thuy Nguyen (she/they) is a bilingual queer scholar, translator, and artist. Ly is an Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies and a founding member of the Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies department at Augsburg University. Ly received their doctorate degree in Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego.
Ly studies transnational histories of war, race, and empire, utilizing approaches from women of color feminism, queer people of color critique, and critical refugee studies. Ly’s research incorporates discussions about culture, language, queer dis/inheritance, refugee epistemologies, transnational activism, and intergenerational trauma. Ly's scholarship is based on their work fostering social and language justice within the Vietnamese/ American community and beyond. These projects include the Little Saigon Stories project (San Diego, 2017-2019), Alphabet for Social Justice Project (Minneapolis, 2021), and Vietnamese Solidarity and Action Network for Abolition (ongoing). Ly has published their writing and translations in Asian American Writers’ Workshop, ajar press, and their most recent publication is with Women’s Studies Quarterly (Spring 2020). |
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Ethnic Studies | University of California, San Diego
M.A. Sociology | San Diego State University
B.A. Sociology | University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi
Ph.D., Ethnic Studies | University of California, San Diego
M.A. Sociology | San Diego State University
B.A. Sociology | University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi
At the Queer Vietnamese Film Festival in Hanoi, 2016.
