Nguyet Nguyen, Ph.D.

Nguyet Nguyen completed her first BA in International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and her second BA in Journalism at Vietnam's Academy for Journalism and Communication. She earned her MA at the University of Oregon on a Fulbright scholarship in 2010, and obtained her Ph.D. at American University in 2019. Besides a Fulbright scholarship, she received multiple awards and fellowships from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Asian Studies Association, the New York University Cold War Center, the American Association of University Women, and Cosmos Foundation. She was a Janet Oppenheim Postdoctoral Fellow at American University and an ASIANetwork-Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Wilmington College. Her research interests include the Vietnam War, US Foreign Relations, Imperialism and Decolonization, and Gender Politics.

Her first book on the transnational movement against the Vietnam War focusing on the role of the Vietnamese is under contract at Cornell University Press. Besides teaching, she has been active in shedding light on the GI antiwar movement and in projects to help with the war legacies in Vietnam such as unexploded ordnance. She takes students - both traditional students and local community members - to Vietnam on a study abroad tour during which the class visits historical sites in Vietnam from the North to the South. 

She is working on her second monograph on how Vietnam's imperial encounters in the 20th century with the French, Americans, Chinese, and Soviets altered the socio-political landscapes of the country. 

For AY 25-26 she taught as Visiting Assistant Professor for the American University of Sharjah. She was in the UAE when the Iran war broke out.

She was the recipient of the university's Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award in AY 2023-2024.