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Ann Tran

Ph.D. Student
Ann Tran
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email ngtran@usc.edu

Biography

Ann Tran is a 4th-year PhD student in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC. Her research interweaves Critical Refugee Studies, Native and Southeast Asian Maritime Studies, and Black feminist frameworks to study the cultural history and memory of Vietnamese boat refugees across Viet Nam, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and the U.S. Gulf South. She looks specifically at the complex experiences of fisherfolk and boat refugees through a material analysis of the boat, an object that indexes imperialism, war, and migration as well as survival and ordinary life-making practices across time and space. 

Education

  • B.A. English, Texas Christian University, 2020
  • B.A. History, Texas Christian University, 2020

  • Conference Presentations

    • Society for Military History Young Scholars Conference (cancelled) , 5/2020
    • Association for Asian American Studies (cancelled) , 4/2020
    • Association for Asian American Studies , 4/2019