Minh Huynh Vu
Ph.D. Student | American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Minh Huynh Vu is a doctoral candidate in American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a Graduate Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. Studying the infrastructural intimacies of U.S. empire in Asia and the Pacific, they are writing a dissertation on cardboard boxes—scattered throughout battlefields, front porches, and landfills—and their logistical centrality to "just-in-time" militarism and capitalism across the 20th and 21st centuries. Currently, they are an affiliate with the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University and an instructor with the Yale Prison Education Initiative.
Pedagogy Fellow, 2022-2023
Dissertation Writing Fellow, 2024-2026