Linh Thuỷ Nguyễn
Election
Name
Linh Thuỷ Nguyễn
Candidate statement
Linh Thuỷ Nguyễn, Ph.D. is assistant professor in American Ethnic Studies, adjunct assistant professor in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and faculty in the Southeast Asia Center at the University of Washington. She specializes in and teaches classes on Asian American and Southeast Asian American cultural studies, immigration and refugee studies, Asian American feminisms, militarism, war and race. Her current book project explores the interpersonal and structural relationships between history, memory, race, war, trauma and family in the Vietnamese diaspora. Her work has been published in Amerasia Journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas and Social Sciences.
I would be honored to serve as a member of the board to represent the Pacific Northwest, Hawai’i, Pacific Islands, Western Canada. AAAS was the first professional organization I joined as a graduate student in the early 2010s. As an assistant professor of American Ethnic Studies, political commitments to anti-racism and anti-oppression are a critical part of my intellectual and community work. As a former organizer I am and have been committed to mentorship, community building and articulating the stakes of my academic work in ways that speak to the day to day experiences of our students, friends and families. I have been so proud to see the public work the association has been doing to challenge homophobia, transphobia, racist misogyny and heteropatriarchy in in addition to the critiques of white supremacy, settler colonialism, war and racism that this work is grounded in. In light of the increased attention to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, we have an opportunity to meaningfully shape an influence public conversations. I aim to celebrate, uplift and further this long standing and important labor that AAAS has been doing and has the capacity to do with an eye toward supporting and building community partnerships and mentorship across and beyond the academy.
I would be honored to serve as a member of the board to represent the Pacific Northwest, Hawai’i, Pacific Islands, Western Canada. AAAS was the first professional organization I joined as a graduate student in the early 2010s. As an assistant professor of American Ethnic Studies, political commitments to anti-racism and anti-oppression are a critical part of my intellectual and community work. As a former organizer I am and have been committed to mentorship, community building and articulating the stakes of my academic work in ways that speak to the day to day experiences of our students, friends and families. I have been so proud to see the public work the association has been doing to challenge homophobia, transphobia, racist misogyny and heteropatriarchy in in addition to the critiques of white supremacy, settler colonialism, war and racism that this work is grounded in. In light of the increased attention to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, we have an opportunity to meaningfully shape an influence public conversations. I aim to celebrate, uplift and further this long standing and important labor that AAAS has been doing and has the capacity to do with an eye toward supporting and building community partnerships and mentorship across and beyond the academy.