Thuy Vo Dang
Assistant Professor
Thuy Vo Dang (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor of Information Studies and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She holds a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego and a B.A. in English and Asian American Studies from Scripps College. Her previous role was Curator for the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive and Research Librarian for Asian American Studies. With research and teaching expertise in oral history, Southeast Asian diaspora, community archives, and cultural memory, Thuy brings an interdisciplinary approach to co-creating digital humanities and archival documentation projects with educators and community-based organizations. She is co-author of the books A People’s Guide to Orange County (2022) and Vietnamese in Orange County (2015). Thuy serves on the board of directors for Arts OC and the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association.
Titles and Positions
- Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies
- Affiliate Faculty, Department of Asian American Studies
- Co-Director of the Community Archives Lab
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
- Society of Hellman Fellowship (2024-25)
- C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies (2023-24)
Education
- Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
- M.A. Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
- B.A. Asian American Studies and English, Scripps College
Select Publications
- Lewinnek, Elaine, Gustavo Arellano, and Thuy Vo Dang. A People’s Guide to Orange County. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.
- Vo Dang, Thuy, Linda Trinh Vo, and Tram Le. Vietnamese in Orange County, Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2015.
- Vo Dang, Thuy and Virginia Nguyen. “Where should we begin? Teaching Vietnamese American Stories through an Antiracist Lens.” English Leadership Quarterly, August 2024
- Vo Dang, Thuy, Karen Umemoto, and Kelly Fong. “Foundations and Futures: Imagining Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies in Every Home.” Journal of Asian American Studies, 26, no. 2 (2023): 255-264.
- Huỳnh, Julia, Phuc Duy Nhu To, Cevadne Lee, Thuy Vo Dang, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, and Sora Park Tanjasiri. “Care during COVID-19: A Virtual Asian American and Pacific Islander Photovoice Project.” AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community 19, No. 1 & 2 (Spring 2022)
- To, Phuc DN, Julia Huynh, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Thuy Vo Dang, Cevadne Lee, and Sora Park Tanjasiri. “Through Our Eyes, Hear Our Stories: A Virtual Photovoice Project to Document and Archive Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Experiences During COVID-19.” Health Promotion Practice. 23:2(2022):289-295.
*Winner of the 2022 Society of Public Health Education Paper of the Year - Võ Đặng, Thúy, Thảo Hà, and Tú-Uyên Nguyễn. “Conflict and Care: Vietnamese American Women and the Dynamics of Social Justice Work.” Amerasia Journal 47:1 (2021), 120-133,
- Vo Dang, Thuy. “The Preservation and Production of Diasporic Knowledge: Oral History and Archival Contributions,” in Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies: History, Community, and Memory, Eds. Linda Ho Peche, Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, and Tuong Vu. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 2023, pp. 273-286.
- Eagle Yun, Audra, Krystal Tribbett, Thuy Vo Dang, and Jimmy Zavala (2021). “Fostering Transformation: Ethnic Studies as Critical Intervention for Primary Source Pedagogy,” in Ethnic Studies in Academic and Research Libraries. Eds. Ray Pun, Melissa Cardenas-Dow, and Kenya S. Flash. ACRL, 2021.
- Vo Dang, Thuy. “The Cultural Work of Anticommunism in the San Diego Vietnamese American Community.” Amerasia Journal 31:2 (2005): 64-86,