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Quan T. Tran

Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program, Yale University, United States

Quan Tran is senior lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Her research and teaching interests include critical refugee studies; Vietnamese diaspora studies; Asian American studies; comparative ethnic studies; migration studies; memory studies; and food studies. Her scholarly publications appear in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies; Amerasia Journal; the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement; Memory Studies; and in edited volumes including Toward A Framework for Vietnamese American Studies; Refugee Crises, 1945-2000; Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-first Century Perspectives; and Asian America: A Primary Source Reader. Her book manuscript, Anchoring Vietnamese Boat People’s History and Memory, examines refugee identity, community, and cultural formations in the Vietnamese diaspora by tracing the late twentieth century Vietnamese boat refugee exodus and contemporary efforts in commemorating that mass migration in Southeast Asia, Western Europe, Australia, North America and cyberspace. Dr. Tran is also a published poet and translator. Her poetry and translations appear in Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora; Thế Kỷ 21; and www.damau.org.

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