As a Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Harvard University from 2008 – 2009, Viet researched how Vietnamese and Americans have remembered and represented the American war in Viet Nam, particularly through the arts.While at Radcliffe, Nguyen delved deeply into the various places where memories of the war are fashioned, including novels, memoirs, films, photographs, memorials, monuments, and museums.