Nguyễn T. Thuỳ-Trang
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Advisor: Frédéric Neyrat & Keith Woodward
Email: ttnguyen28@wisc.edu
Research interests: colonialism and decolonization, Global South studies, Africa-Asia connections, cultural geographies, psychoanalysis, postcolonial visual culture, and world cinema
Recent publications
Nguyen, T.-T. T. (2026). The inoperative refusal: Gestures and how the unruly body goes on strike. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 51(3), e70091. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.70091
Nguyen, T.-T. T. (2026). The cost of solidarity: Voicing the speculative in Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s video installation art. Critical GeoHumanities: Solidarities, Humanitarianism, Scholarship-Activism and Creative Political Engagements [Special issue]. GeoHumanities. [Abstract accepted. Manuscript under review]
Gerlach, J., Jellis, T., Bosworth, K., Woodward, K., Dubow, J., Nguyen, T.-T. T. (2026). Author meets critics: ‘Spinoza’s Geographical Ethics’ by Joe Gerlach. AAG Review of Books. [Invited paper. Awaiting publication]
Nguyen, T.-T. T., Denejkina, A., Summersett Williams, F., Henshaw, L. A., & Shadowen, N. (2023). Neighborhood factors and school engagement in children of parents or guardians who have experienced incarceration. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 32(12), 3800–3815. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-023-02688-9
Urban, T. H., Nguyen, T.-T. T., Morford, A. E., Spinelli, T., Martinovich, Z., Schewe, P. A., & Risser, H. J. (2020). Utilization of evidence-based treatment models at community-based mental health settings for young children exposed to violence. Children and Youth Services Review, 105233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105233
Awards
2-year Advanced Placement Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), 2022-2026
Center Field Research Grants, Center for South-East Asian Study (UW-Madison), 2025
African Studies Program Research Award, (UW-Madison), 2025
1-year The Kemper Knapp Fellowship, (UW-Madison), 2022
Education
M.A., Counseling, Child and Adolescent, Northwestern University, 2019
B.Sc., Economics and Law, Singapore Management University, 2012