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Y Thien Nguyen

Y Thien Nguyen

Y Thien Nguyen is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Northwestern University. He is trained in historical sociology, deploys oral historical and archival methodologies, and engages with scholarship on state formation, the Cold War, critical race and ethnicity, as well as refugee and memories studies. Empirically, his research focuses on the political-history of Republican Vietnam (1955-1975) and the origins, development, and legacies of South Vietnamese nationalism, anticommunism, and conceptions of modernity, self, and state. He links the political and ideological history of Republican Vietnam with the contemporary politics of Vietnamese America. His research demonstrates how political concepts developed during the early years of the Republic of Vietnam were routinized, popularized, and hegemonized across the Republican era. His dissertation argues that these ideas were reutilized by Vietnamese refugees to construct their communities following the Fall of Saigon. His data is drawn from the Southeast Asian Archives at the UCI; oral histories of Vietnamese Americans conducted in Orange County, CA; numerous South Vietnamese and contemporary Vietnamese American newspapers, journals, and books; and archival data obtained from his year-long research at Vietnam National Archive II and the General Science Library in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His article “(Re)Making the South Vietnamese Past in America” is published in the Journal of Asian American Studies.

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