Nhung Tuyet Tran (Send e-mail)

Nhung Tuyet Tran is Assistant Professor in the Department of History. She was trained in Chinese history at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. & Ph.D. Studies) and Southeast Asian history at the UCLA (Ph.D.) Her intellectual interests lie at the intersection of gender, law, and religious practice in early modern Vietnamese society. She is currently working on a monograph-length social history of Vietnamese gender, tentatively titled, "Vietnamese Women at the Crossroads of Southeast Asia: Gender and Society in the Early Modern Period." Her published and forthcoming works problemmatise the links between the appropriation of Vietnamese gender relations to construct Vietnamese historical identity. She is also working on a project that explores the social and cultural history of Vietnamese Catholicism using written sources written in the demotic script, chu nom. She has organised several international conferences on Vietnamese Studies and is involved in initiatives that bridge the gaps between Vietnamese and Western scholarship on Viet Nam.