Jennifer A. Huynh Curriculum Vitae June 2020
Department of American Studies 574 631 6689 (office) University of Notre Dame 574 631 4399 (fax) 1040 Flanner Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 [email protected] (email)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Princeton University. Sociology. 2016 Committee: Alejandro Portes (chair), Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Min Zhou (UCLA)
M.A. Princeton University. Sociology. 2010
M.A. University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Anthropology. 2007 Thesis: Reimagining the Homeland: Somali Nationalism in the Diaspora
B.A. University of California, Berkeley. Sociology. 2005 Thesis: Vietnamese Amerasians & the 1988 Homecoming Act
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2018-present: Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame, Faculty Fellow, Liu Institute for Asia & Asian Studies
2017-2018: Adjunct Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
2015-2016: Lecturer, Program of Asian American Studies & Sociology, Northwestern University
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS in progress: Suburban Enclaves: Growing up Vietnamese in Little Saigon (Three chapters completed. Anticipated Completion Date: 2021).
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES & ESSAYS
In progress: “Changing the Narrative: Visual Representations of COVID-19 in Diasporic Chinese and US Newspapers.”
Under Review: “Internalized Racial Oppression & Second-Generation Vietnamese.” Submitted May 2020
Under Review: “Beyond Remittances: Transnational Organizing & Activism,” Submitted April 2020
2019: Huynh, Jennifer. “La Charla: Documenting the Experiences of Unaccompanied Minors in Immigration Court.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. June: 1-15
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS forthcoming: “I Love Pho: Intergenerational Entrepreneurship,” in Tuong Vu, Alex Thai-Vo, & Linda Ho Peche, eds., Handbook of Vietnamese Americans.
2016: “Breaking Blocked Transnationalism: Intergenerational Change in Homeland Ties” in Alejandro Portes & Patricia Fernandez Kelly, eds., The State & the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational organizations in Four Continents (New York: Berghahn Books)
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS
2018: Review of Kathryn E. Wilson, Ethnic renewal in Philadelphia’s Chinatown. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015), in Studies in Ethnicity & Nationalism
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2020: “Where do I go? Unaccompanied Minors Navigating Immigration Court,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 13.
“Research on Ethnic Entrepreneurship among Vietnamese-Americans,” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Washington DC, April 9. (Cancelled COVID)
2019: “La Charla: Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors in the US Courtroom,” 114th American Sociological Association, New York, New York. August 5.
“States of Deportation: Undocumented Asian Minors,” Asian American Studies Association, Madison, Wisconsin, April 7.
2018: “I Love Pho: Gentrification & Survival in Little Saigon,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 10.
“Teaching Ethnic Studies on a White Campus,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta Georgia. November 11.
“Navigating Race & Class Hierarchies in School: Becoming Asian in Southern California,” American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 6.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: EDITORIAL
2018-: Reader/reviewer for International Journal of Contemporary Sociology; International Migration Review; Social Problems
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: BOARDS, COMMITTEES, SELECTION PANELS
2018: National Science Foundation, External Reviewer, Early CAREER Award, Sociology
American Sociological Association, Section on Asia and Asian American Studies, Transnational Book Award Committee
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2017: Sage Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award Committee, Sage Publishing
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Notre Dame 2018 - Critical Refugee Studies Immigrant America Asian American Experience Senior Seminar
2019 Faculty Fellow, Notre Dame International Summer, “America & the World Today,” with Keio University, Zhejiang University, & Aichi Prefectural University, Tokyo.
2015-2016 Northwestern University, Department of Sociology & Program in Asian American Studies: Southeast Asian American Histories Ethnic Economies & Neighborhoods Second-Generation Immigrant Experiences
2008-2010 Princeton University, Department of Sociology, Graduate Teaching Assistant: Race, Class, & Gender Stratification Sociological Theory Race in Comparative Perspective
2006-2007 Missouri State University, International Campus, Dalian China Introduction to Sociology
HONORS AND AWARDS
2016-2017: Northwestern University, Faculty Honor Roll, university wide teaching award for outstanding teaching
GRANTS: PERSONAL RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
2021: Russell Sage Foundation Summer Institute on Migration Research Methods, University of California, Berkeley (5% acceptance rate). May 2021. Project: “Measuring the Undocumented Asian American Population.”
2016: Sage Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award, Sage Publishing, Travel Grant to American Sociological Association annual meeting & pre-conference
2007-2012: Princeton University, President’s Fellowship
2009: Center for Migration and Development, Dissertation Fellowship, Princeton University
2008: East Asian Studies Program, Summer Research Grant, at the University of Hong Kong, Princeton University.
2004: Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship to the United Kingdom.
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GRANTS: CLASSROOM SUPPORT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
2020: Teaching Beyond the Classroom (TBC) Small Grant, Undergraduate Studies, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.
2019: Teaching Beyond the Classroom (TBC) Small Grant, Undergraduate Studies, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.
2018: Liu Institute Asian Studies Faculty Conference Grant.
ACADEMIC SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
Department of American Studies: 2020-2021 Executive Committee
University of Notre Dame: 2018 Panelist, “Crazy, Rich Asians” sponsored by Department of Film/Television, Nov. 29.
Center for Social Concerns Community Engagement Faculty Institute, June 5.
Key Note Speaker, Asian & Pacific Islander Commencement Ceremony, May 19.
SENIOR THESIS SUPERVISION
2020 Alexandra Lloyd, “Refugees and NGOs: An Analysis of Power in the US Resettlement Process,” UROP grant recipient
2019 Darcy Dehais, “Indiana’s Housing Crisis: Weak Renter Policy Protections & a Culture of Eviction,” UROP grant recipient
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
2018- University of Notre Dame PhD Committee member for Mette Evelyn Bjerre, Department of Sociology PhD Committee member for Nancy Diaz, Department of Sociology
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Studies Association Asian American Studies Association American Sociological Association Critical Mixed-Race Studies
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