Cindy Nguyen
Dr. Cindy Nguyen is assistant professor in the Information Studies department and Digital Humanities program at University of California, Los Angeles. Her book manuscript, “Bibliotactics: The Social Life of Libraries and Colonial Control in Vietnam, 1865–1958” reveals how the library reading room became a space of urban sociability, cultural imperialism, and self-directed education. She specializes in Southeast Asian print culture, digital humanities, critical data studies, and histories of the book and information. Nguyen is also a public scholar and community artist exploring themes of memory, translation, and migration. To learn more about her historical scholarship, teaching, and digital humanities work, see her website https://cindyanguyen.com
Education
- Ph.D. in History, University of California, Berkeley
- M.A. in History, Michigan State University
- B.A. in History and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
- 2022 Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Rare Book School
- 2022 The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
- Research Development Grants for BIPOC Scholars
- 2021 University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
Select Publications
- Cindy Anh Nguyen, “Collecting through Absence: Fragmenting Vietnamese Refugee Archives,” Wasafiri, Taylor & Francis (in production)
- Cindy Nguyen, “Creating the National Library in Saigon: Colonial Legacies, Fragmented Collections, and Reading Publics, 1946-1958,” in Building a Republican Nation in Postcolonial Vietnam, 1920-1963, Volume 1, edited by Nu-Anh Tran and Tuong Vu, (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2022)
- Cindy Nguyen, “Reading Rules: The Symbolic and Social Spaces of Reading in the Hanoi Central Library, 1919-1941,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, (2020) Volume 15, No. 3: 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2020.15.3.1
- Cindy Nguyen, “A Xu/Sou for the Students: A Discourse Analysis of Vietnamese Student Migration to France in the Late Colonial Period” in The Question of Return: Leaving, Arriving, and Returning in an Age of Transnational Migration, ed. Michiel Baas, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015), 135-156.
