RESEARCH
Revolutionary Others: Migratory Subjects and Vietnamese Radicalism in the United States During and After the Vietnam War
Based on years of original multi-sited archival research and oral history interviews with Vietnamese/American activists in Vietnam and in the United States, my in-progress first book project conceptualizes a transnational genealogy of Vietnamese radicalism that consists of pre- and post-war generations of Vietnamese/American people and investigates the interpersonal and political connections that allowed for the formation of a Vietnamese American Left. Politically charged and explicitly interdisciplinary, this project addresses how America’s contested relationships to Vietnamese political actors throughout the Vietnam War era has shaped the long 1960s’ leftist social movements, undergirded America’s turn to neoliberal conservatism post-1980, and in many ways continued to inform the more recent political polarizations around Trump’s America.
Other Projects
Works in Critical Refugee Studies:
- Ongoing: an article with Yen Le Espiritu about the Vietnamese-language literature produced and self-published by the first cohort of Vietnamese refugees.
Works in Global Asian Studies:
- Article on socialist cultural exchange and technoscience development between North Vietnam and Socialist Bloc (1953 – 1989)
- Article on Hallyu (Korean wave) and the development of Korean cinema apparatus in Vietnam
Works in Vietnamese radicalism:
-Article on the rise and fall of Vietnamese Trotskyism
- Ongoing: an article with Yen Le Espiritu about the Vietnamese-language literature produced and self-published by the first cohort of Vietnamese refugees.
Works in Global Asian Studies:
- Article on socialist cultural exchange and technoscience development between North Vietnam and Socialist Bloc (1953 – 1989)
- Article on Hallyu (Korean wave) and the development of Korean cinema apparatus in Vietnam
Works in Vietnamese radicalism:
-Article on the rise and fall of Vietnamese Trotskyism
