Linda Trinh VoAssociate Professor and Chair, Department of Asian American Studies Courtesy Appointment, Department of Sociology Affiliated Faculty, Department of Planning, Policy & Design Affiliated Faculty, Department of Women's Studies |
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Research Interests |
Asian American studies; race and ethnic relations; immigration theory; gender relations; social stratification and inequality; ethnographic research methods; and community and urban sociology | |
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Academic Distinctions | University of California, Irvine Chancellor's Fellow (2006-2009) | |
| Appointments |
University of California, Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Diversity. Affiliated with Asian American Studies Program/Ethnic Studies Department. Fall 1994-Summer 1996. University of California Humanities Research Institute Fellowship. Minority Discourse III: “The Case of California: Processes of Diversity in Community.” University of California, Irvine. Fall 1993. |
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Research Abstract |
Dr. Linda Trinh Vo is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego in 1995 and was a faculty member in the Sociology Department at Oberlin College and the Comparative Cultures Department at Washington State University. She received a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship (1994-1996) and is currently a UCI Chancellor's Fellow (2006-2009). She is also an Equity Advisor for the School of Humanities, working as a Faculty Assistant to the Dean to improve gender and ethnic diversity in the professoriate, focusing on equal opportunity and equity practices in hiring, mentoring, and retention. Dr. Vo is the author of a book, Mobilizing an Asian American Community (Temple University Press, 2004), about how and why Asian Americans strategically organized for social, cultural, political, and economic purposes. She is the co-editor of three books: Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersection and Divergences (2002); Asian American Women: The “Frontiers” Reader (2004); and Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration (2004). She also edited a special issue on “Vietnamese Americans: Diaspora and Dimensions” for Amerasia Journal and co-edited a special issue on “Mapping Comparative Studies of Racialization in the U.S.” for Ethnicities Journal and a special issue on "Asian American Women" for Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. She is a series editor for the Asian American Culture and History series published by Temple University Press. She has served on Program Committees for the Asian American Studies Association, the American Studies Association, and the Pacific Sociological Association. On campus, she is a Board Member of the Southeast Asian Archive at Langson Library, which collects and documents the experiences of Cambodian, Lao, and Vietnamese Americans and is an Advisor for the Vietnamese American Coalition, a student organization. Dr. Vo is a board member of the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA); Project MotiVATe, a mentoring program for Vietnamese American teens; the biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF); and an Advisory Member of the Demographic Research Project for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) in Los Angeles. She is also an advisory board member for the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and the Diasporic Vietnamese Arts Network (DVAN). | |
| Publications |
SERIES EDITOR: • Temple University Press. Asian American History and Culture series edited by Sucheng Chan (emeritus UC Santa Barbara), David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford University), Michael Omi (UC Berkeley), K. Scott Wong (Williams College), and Linda Trinh Võ (2005-present) EDITORIAL BOARD: • Journal of Asian American Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press), 2005-present • Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement. National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans (NAFEA). 2006-present BOOKS Mobilizing an Asian American Community. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2004. - 2004 Honorable Mention Book Award for Social Sciences, national Association for Asian American Studies Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration, edited by Gilbert Gonzalez, Raul Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith, and Linda Trinh Võ. New York: Routledge Press, 2004. Asian American Women: The “Frontiers” Reader, edited by Linda Trinh Võ and Marian Sciachitano (with Susan Armitage, Patricia Hart, and Karen Weathermon). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences, edited by Linda Trinh Võ and Rick Bonus. Philadelphia: PA: Temple University Press, 2002. JOURNALS – GUEST EDITOR Invited co-guest editors, Linda Trinh Võ and Rodolfo D. Torres, a special issue “Mapping Comparative Studies of Racialization in the U.S.” for Ethnicities Journal [Sage Publications, United Kingdom] Number 4, Issue 3 (September 2004). Invited guest editor for “Vietnamese Americans: Diaspora and Dimensions,” a special issue of Amerasia Journal, Volume 29, Number 1 (July 2003). Invited co-guest editors, Marian Sciachitano and Linda Trinh Võ. A special issue on Asian American women for Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 21, no. 1 & 2 (March 2000). JOURNALS “Building a Vietnamese American Community: Economic and Political Transformation in Little Saigon, Orange County.” Special issue “How Do Asian Americans Create Places? Los Angeles & Beyond,” guest editor, KyeYoung Park, UCLA. Amerasia Journal, Vol 34, No 3 (2008): 84-109. “‘Whose School District is This?’: Vietnamese Americans and Coalitional Politics in Orange County, California.” AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice and Community, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer/Fall) 2007: 1-32. “The Formation of Post-Suburban Communities: Little Saigon and Koreatown, Orange County” co-authored with Mary Yu Danico. Special issue guest edited by Prema Kurien on “The Impact of Immigrants on American Institutions,” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. (Barmarick Publications, England). Vol. 24, Number 7/8, 2004: 15-45. “Telling Our Stories: The Asian American Comparative Collection.” Review essay in Journal of Asian American Studies 2: 1 (February 1999): 93-100. “Asian Immigrants, Asian Americans, and the Politics of Economic Mobilization in San Diego.” Amerasia Journal 22: 2 (1996): 89-108. BOOK CHAPTERS “Transforming a Community: Little Saigon, Orange County” in Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries, edited by Huping Ling. Rutgers University Press, 2009, 87-103. “What a Difference a Generation Makes: Negotiating Vietnamese American Womanhood in the Diaspora” in Le Vietnam au Feminin/Vietnam: Women’s Realities, edited by Gisèle Bousquet and Nora Taylor. Paris: Les Indes Savantes Publisher, 2005, 323-336. This book has both French and English language essays. “‘No Lattés Here’: Asian American Youth and the Cyber Café Obsession,” Mary Yu Danico and Linda Trinh Võ in Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity, edited by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou. New York: Routledge Press, 2004, 177-190. “Managing Survival: Economic Realities for Vietnamese American Women” in Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, edited by Shirley Hune and Gail Nomura. New York University Press, 2003, 237-252. - Reprint: “Managing Survival: A Brief History of Vietnamese America Through a Gendered Perspective” in “Charlie Don’t Surf: 4 Vietnamese American Artists. Published by Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2005, pp. 14-27. For “Charlie Don’t Surf: Art, the Politics of Identity, and the Vietnam War” art exhibition. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Exhibition: 9 April - 21 May 2005. “A Community in Transition: Little Saigon” in The New Face of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21st Century, edited by Eric Lai and Dennis Arguelles [pp.283]. Co-published by AsianWeek newspaper and UCLA Asian American Studies Center in with partnership with Organization for Chinese Americans (OCA) and the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (NCAPACD), 2003, 126-127. [Book and CD-rom version] “The Politics of Social Services for a ‘Model Minority’: The Union of Pan Asian Communities.” In Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Southern California, edited by Marta López-Garza and David R. Diaz. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, 241-272. “Asian American Women: Immigration, Labor Force Participation, and Activism.” In Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives, edited by Dana Vannoy. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 2000, 279-289. “The Vietnamese American Experience: From Dispersion to the Development of Post-Refugee Communities.” In Asian American Studies: A Reader, edited by Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu and Min Song. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000, 290-305. “Performing Ethnography in Asian American Communities: Beyond the Insider-versus-Outsider Perspective.” In Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America, ed. Martin F. Manalansan. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2000, 17-37. OTHER PUBLICATIONS “Documenting the Southeast Asian American Experience” Oakland Museum of California magazine, Fall 2004: 12-13. “Telling Our Stories: The Asian American Comparative Collection.” Asian Mode, American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian American Newsletter (November 1998): 5-6. “The Chinese/Asian Thematic Historic District,” Asian Business Association News, San Diego, California. Volume 1, Issue 4 (April 1992). OTHER PROJECTS Lead Faculty Advisor for “The Southeast Asian Archive Access Project,” Southeast Asian Archive, Department of Special Collections and Archives, UC Irvine Libraries. ($208,000) National Endowment for the Humanities grant to process and digitalize 4,000 document pages and 1,500 pictures. Developing the framework that will form the intellectual content of the Web portal and writing the textual narrative. 2003-2005. seaadoc.lib.uci.edu Consultant for treatments and scripts, Crossing East Project - eight one-hour programs about Asian American immigration. National Public Radio. April 2005 – present. Aired May 2006. |
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| Graduate Programs |
Sociology |
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| Last updated | 08/18/2009 | |