Welcome to Dr. Ann Thuy-Ling Tran!

The Department of Asian & Asian American Studies are beyond excited to welcome Dr. Ann Thuy-Ling Tran! Starting Fall 2023, Dr. Tran will be joining the department as the new Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies.

When discussing her research interests, Dr. Tran states, “My research is dedicated to refugee lives and their stories. At the intersection of critical refugee studies, critical race theory, food studies, cultural studies, Viet Nam studies, religious studies and sociocultural linguistics, I study refugee narratives found in unexpected archives that haunt the most everyday pop/cultural spaces –accented languages, food vlogs, and shopping centers– especially as they are captured and engaged with in the global, diasporic, digital realm. More specifically, I am interested in oral history and autoethnographic methodologies and how subsequent generations of refugees translate their familial histories of trauma through these refugee cultural archives as a form of intergenerational healing.”

Dr. Tran’s Office is located just down the hall from the AAAS Department Office in FO3-304. If you see Dr. Tran on campus, feel free to say hi!

Feel free to watch the video below with Dr. Tran’s introduction:

AAAS Department at CLA Convocation (Left) & Dr. Barbara Kim introducing Dr. Ann Thuy-Ling Tran at CLA Convocation (Right)