Gia-Quân Thị Anna Nguyễn
Davidson College
Davidson, NC
Department of History

Positions Held
2023-Present Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History

Education
2018-2023 Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle
Dissertation Title: Resistance Nationalisms: Vietnamese Political Identities and Refugee Narratives in the United States, 1945-1995
Chair: Dr. Moon-Ho Jung
2016-2018 M.A., History, University of Washington, Seattle
2012-2015 B.A., History & Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle

Academic Honors, Awards, and Fellowships (Partial)
2023 Gething Award for Graduate Student Conference Travel, University of Washington
2022-2023 The Simpson Center’s Society of Scholars Graduate Fellowship, University of Washington
2022 John and Mary Ann Mangels Endowed Fellowship for Public History, University of Washington
2022 Charles H. Heffelfinger Fellowship in American History, University of Washington
2022 Elizabeth Brown Ayers Fellowship in American History, University of Washington
2021 Graduate Student Dissertation Research Travel Award, University of Washington
2021 Mellon Summer Fellowship for Public Projects in the Humanities, University of Washington
2020 Rondeau Evans Dissertation Fellowship Award, University of Washington
2018 Graduate Student Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Award, University of Washington
2018 Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship, University of Washington
2017-2018 Foreign Language and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship, University of Washington
2017 Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship, University of Washington
2017 Elizabeth Brown Ayers Fellowship in American History, University of Washington
2016-2017 Graduate School Fund for Excellence & Innovation (GSFEI) Top Scholar Award, University of Washington

Conference Activity (Partial)
Presenter
“Entanglements: Digitally Counter-Mapping the History of Asian Migration onto Coast Salish Lands” at the Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA, April 2023.

“Blood Debt: The Rise and Radicalization of Vietnamese Student-Activists in the United States Prior to 1975” at the Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, April 2023.

“Exile Nationalism: The Third Indochina War and the Development of Vietnamese American Identity” at the Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Denver, CO, April 2022.

“Blood Debt: The Rise and Radicalization of Vietnamese Student-Activists in the United States Prior to 1975” at the Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, online, April 2021.

“We Became the Cavalry”: The Transformation of Native American Warrior Identity during the Vietnam War” at the Native American Indigenous Studies Association, Washington, D.C., June 2015.

Invited Talks
“Blood Debt”: The Rise and Radicalization of Vietnamese Student-Activists in the United States Prior to 1975,” the University of Washington Southeast Asian Center Webinar Series, April 12, 2021.

Public Scholarship
Digital Projects
Nguyễn, Gia-Quân Thị Anna and Madison Heslop. Writer and researcher. Digital Map: Entanglements: Mapping the History of Asian Migration onto Coast Salish Lands. January 2022. http://entanglements.ds.lib.uw.edu/neatline/show/entangle.

Podcasts
Nguyễn, Gia-Quân Thị Anna Nguyen and Safiya Karmy-Jones. Interviewer and interviewee. Write for You: “Anna & Safi.” Produced by the University of Washington’s Odegaard Writing & Resource Center. June 2022. https://depts.washington.edu/owrc/resources/podcast/

Service
2021-2022 History Department’s Graduate & Professional Student Senate Liaison
2020-2021 History Department Healthcare Collective, University of Washington
2019-2021 History Department’s Diversity Committee, University of Washington
2018-2019 History Department’s Graduate Liaison Committee, University of Washington