Jennifer Huynh

Assistant Professor
Faculty Fellow Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies; Faculty Fellow Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
American Studies

Research Interests

Asian American Studies; Critical Refugee Studies; International Migration

Related Courses Taught

Asian American Experience; Race and Racism (senior seminar); Critical Refugee Studies

Biography

Jennifer Huynh is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies and a faculty fellow of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her most recent research examines representations of Asians and Asian Americans in the US and diasporic Chinese newspapers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her book manuscript centers the experiences of second-generation Vietnamese refugees living in suburban Southern California. Her second book project focuses on transnational understandings of race and ethnicity for Vietnamese Amerasians, mixed-race children of war, the progeny of American soldiers and Vietnamese women both in Vietnam and the US. Huynh earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2016 and her B.A. from UC Berkeley.