Nguyen Trung P.

Nguyen Trung P. is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at San José State University, specializing in the intersections of war, race, gender, and US imperial legacies through Vietnamese diasporic frameworks. His scholarship interrogates how loss and sensory afterlives of conflict shape state violence, surveillance, and refugee subjectivities.

• Education: Ph.D. in History of Consciousness (UC Santa Cruz), M.A. in Asian American Studies (UCLA), B.A. in Asian American Studies (UCLA)
• Research Focus: US empire in Vietnam, racialized policing, anti-imperial aesthetics, and Southeast Asian American mental health paradigms
• Professional Experience: Former Managing Editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies and Critical Ethnic Studies journal