Viet wins USC Provost’s Prize for Teaching with Technology
USC Dornsife professors each take a 2013 Provost’s Prize for Teaching With Technology for research in which their students use diving computers and easily…(read more)
News
Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers)
Do you respond to emails/letters? I do my best to write back to everyone who writes to me. If I’m really lucky, I do…(read more)
Viet Joins Kaya Press Board of Directors
Founded in 1994, Kaya Press is an independent not-for-profit publisher of Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic literature. It is dedicated to the publication of new…(read more)
Nguyen and Hoskins Receive $200,000 Luce Grant for Transpacific Studies
The Henry Luce Foundation awarded Viet Nguyen and his colleague, Janet Hoskins, a $200,000 Luce Grant for 2011-2014 to develop a Center for Transpacific…(read more)
Viet Joins the Journal of Global Viet Diaspora Advisory Board
The Journal of Global Viet Diaspora promotes the publication of high-quality research on Vietnamese diasporic experiences, broadly defined. It explores and examines Vietnam, and the…(read more)
Viet Receives American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
The American Council of Learned Societies granted Viet a research fellowship for academic year 2011-2012 to work on his scholarly book about war and…(read more)
Viet wins Mellon Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students
The USC Mellon Mentoring Awards honor individual faculty for helping build a supportive academic environment at USC through faculty-to-student and faculty-to-faculty mentoring. Viet was one…(read more)
Viet Receives $10,000 Investing in Artists Grant for Artistic Innovation
Viet was selected as one of the twenty-six recipients who were awarded with a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation‘s Investing in Artists…(read more)
Viet Wins $5,000 Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Grant for An Other War Memorial
In a recent course on the American War in Viet Nam, Viet and his students created An Other War Memorial, which won a grant from…(read more)
Viet Becomes a Luce Foundation Fellow at the Asian Cultural Council
The Asian Cultural Council awarded Viet and his colleague, Sam Sweezy, with a grant to research photography and memory in contemporary Vietnam.(read more)
Singer Cathy Nguyen Featured in New York Times
My colleague at USC, Josh Kun, has an article in the New York Times today talking about Asian American musicians. He draws attention to what many of us…(read more)
Nguyen and Hoskins Receive $40,000 Interdisciplinary Research Grant for Center for Transpacific Studies
Viet, co-principal investigator, and Janet Hoskins, principal investigator, received a $40,000 James H. Zumberge Interdisciplinary Research Grant for the development of the Center for Transpacific Studies (CTS).…(read more)
Viet Receives James Irvine Foundation Honorary Fellowship
The Djerassi Resident Artists Program awarded Viet with the James Irvine Foundation Honorary Fellowship for the academic year of 2008 – 2009.(read more)
Viet Receives $18,600 Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant
For “A Country Not Our Own: Memory and the American War in Viet Nam,” Viet received an $18,600 Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social…(read more)
Viet Receives $20,000 Arts Writers Grant
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Grant Program awarded Viet with a $20,000 grant. Designed to encourage and reward writing about contemporary art that…(read more)
Viet Becomes a Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
As a Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Harvard University from 2008 – 2009, Viet researched how Vietnamese…(read more)
