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Nhung Tuyet Tran is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, specializing in East Asia, particularly Vietnam. Her academic background includes a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.Phil from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in Chinese legal history, gender studies, and Southeast Asian social history, focusing on the intersection of gender, law, and religion within these contexts. Tran has published influential works, including 'Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam,' which explores the complexities of Vietnamese women’s history in relation to state law and local customs. Her ongoing projects include a study on the intellectual history of property in Cham sources and the analysis of Buddhist and Christian religious texts in Vietnam. Tran has developed and taught a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, focusing on gender, food, and religious history in the Indian Ocean World and beyond. She is also the director of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies at UofT and has been involved in numerous initiatives connecting scholarly work with public history and community engagement in Vietnam.
Department of Sociology