Linh Thủy Nguyễn is Associate Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, adjunct in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, and faculty in the Center for the study of Southeast Asia and its Diasporas at the University of Washington. Her first book Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production (Temple, 2024), Honorable Mention, Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association, is an examination of how the language of the family, war, and trauma has come to shape and constrain the possibilities for subjectivity, imagination, and relationality for the children of Vietnamese refugees. Her research explores the interpersonal and structural relationships between history, memory, race, war, infrastructures, migration, nation and family.