Quynh H. Vo

Professorial Lecturer, Department of Critical Race, Gender & Culture Studies

Dr. Quynh H. Vo is a professorial lecturer in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. Her research projects focus particularly on transnational Asian American politics and aesthetics, power and revolution, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as US empire, migration, and neoliberalism. Dr. Vo is the co-author of The Making of Little Saigon: Nostalgia, (Dis)enchantment, and Aspirations, in which the authors chronicle stories of community building, social engagement, and relationships between Vietnamese American generations of refugees and immigrants residing in Little Saigon, Orange County, California, by interviewing subjects working in different professions and providing recent records about their sociopolitical evolvement over time. The book is sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Studies Center and the Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems and Management (PRIISM) and is forthcoming in 2024.