Rate My Professor Linh Nguyen

Nguyen’s research specializations include rural migration and displacement in Vietnam, extramarital relationships, masculinity, and gender relations in Vietnam, transnational marriages in a global Asia, fishermen’s movements and social immobility, remittances, expectations, and suffering, morality and normalization of transnational marriages, and maritime immigration. Her key publications are “Women as Fish: Rural Migration and Displacement in Vietnam” (2016), a chapter in Disconnected in Vietnam: Remaking Social Relations in a Post-socialist Nation edited by Philip Taylor (Australian National University Press), and “Extramarital Relationships, Masculinity, and Gender Relations in Vietnam” (2009, co-authored with Jack Harris), published in Southeast Review of Asian Studies (Vol. 31). She has received major awards and fellowships such as the Dissertation Writing Award and Maxwell Dean’s Summer Research Grants from Syracuse University, Bucerius PhD Scholarship in Migration Studies and Fieldwork Grants from Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius Foundation, Roscoe Martin Research Grant, Maxwell Graduate Assistantship and Teaching Assistantships, Salisbury International Internship Award, and Freeman Foundation Scholar. In 2020, she obtained a Faculty Excellence and Innovation in Diversity grant for “Hidden Connections between Vietnam and Latin-America: Designing a VIET upper-division course on diversity and inclusion.” Fluent in English and Vietnamese, Nguyen continues to advance Vietnamese studies through curriculum development and scholarly contributions.