Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
Professor Nguyen specializes in the study of the United States in the world, with spatial focus on Southeast Asia and temporal interest in the Cold War. She is the author of Hanoi’ s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (2012), which won the Society for Military History Edward M. Coffman Prize, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Stuart L. Bernath Prize, was a finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize. Professor Nguyen is also General Editor of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, 3 volumes (2024). She is currently working on two projects: a comprehensive history of the 1968 Tet Offensive with Random House and the second explores the role of gender, people’s diplomacy, and transnational networks of anti-war activism during the Vietnam War.
Professor Nguyen serves on Fulbright University Vietnam’s (FUV) Board of Trustees. She is also Principal Investigator of the Henry Luce Foundation-funded, “Digitizing Vietnam: The Virtual Future of Global Vietnam and Vietnamese Studies,” with FUV.