Subscribe to our newsletter by emailAnne Frank Visiting Researcher 2017 Awardee, Khoi Nguyen
*Note to the reader: "They" is Nguyen's preferred gender pronoun.
The 2017 recipient of the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive (SEAA) Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award is Khoi Nguyen, a Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Studies from George Mason University. Nguyen visited the SEAA collections for dissertation research from May 7-11, 2018. They engaged in research consultations with UCI archivists and received access to a number of relevant archival collections for their project titled, "Unsettled Colonialism: A Genealogy of U.S. Queer Refugees post-1975."
Nguyen's dissertation traces the genealogy of queer refugees in the U.S. post-1975, to have a better understanding of current global migration patterns, examines the heteronuclear family structures within refugee narratives, and will utilize queer community archives to explore the privileging of homonationalism. By working with the Southeast Asian Archive, they located the different entry points to understand how heteronormativity is performed within the various Southeast Asian refugee nuclear families and communities. This research will be used to develop ethnographic questions for the queer population, and they aim to use this research to address the lack of engagement with issues of U.S. militarization and globalization in the current queer refugee scholarship.
For more information please contact Thuy Vo Dang, Ph.D., Curator for the Southeast Asian Archive at thuy.vodang@uci.edu.