Senior Lecturer in the Program for Ethnicity, Race, and Migration

Quan TranQuan T. Tran is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Program Coordinator in the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program at Yale. She holds a PhD in American Studies. Her research and teaching interests include critical refugee studies; Vietnamese boat people; Asian American studies; diaspora and transnational studies; comparative ethnic studies; migration studies; memory studies; and food studies. Her scholarly publications appear in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies; Amerasia Journal; the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement; and in edited volumes including Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies (2023); Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison (2020); and Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-first Century Perspectives (2016). Her book manuscript, Anchoring Vietnamese Boat People’s History and Memory, examines refugee identity, community, and cultural formations in the Vietnamese diaspora by tracing the late twentieth century Vietnamese boat refugee exodus and contemporary efforts in commemorating that mass migration in Southeast Asia, Western Europe, Australia, North America and cyberspace. Dr. Tran is also a published poet and translator. Her poetry and translations appear in Impermanence: A Chapbook (2020); Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora (2014); Thế Kỷ 21; and www.damau.org.