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Dr. Thuy Vo Dang (she/her/hers) is Curator for the Southeast Asian Archive and Research Librarian for Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine Libraries. She has a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego, with expertise on Southeast Asian diaspora, oral history, ethnography and community archives.
Her current work advances community-centered archives practice, an approach that centers the preservation and access to histories of historically marginalized groups. She is co-author of the books, A People’s Guide to Orange County (2022), an alternative history and tour guide of Orange County that documents sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation, and Vietnamese in Orange County (2015), a visual history of the largest Vietnamese diaspora. Thuy serves on the board of directors for Arts OC and the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association.
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Dr. Thuy Vo Dang (she/her/hers) is Curator for the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive and research librarian for Asian American Studies. Her work advances the practice of community-centered archives and foregrounds histories of marginalized groups. She has a Ph.D. and M.A. in ethnic studies from University of California, San Diego and a B.A. in English and Asian American Studies from Scripps College. With research and teaching expertise in oral history, Southeast Asian diaspora, community archives, and cultural memory, Thuy brings an interdisciplinary and grounded approach to building out digital humanities and archival documentation projects in collaboration with educators and community-based organizations.
She is co-author of the book, Vietnamese in Orange County (2015, with Linda Trinh Vo and Tram Le, Arcadia Publishing) and also co-author of A People’s Guide to Orange County (2022, with Elaine Lewinnek and Gustavo Arellano, University of California Press), an alternative history and tour guide of Orange County that documents sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.
Recognized by OC Weekly as “The Studs Terkel of Little Saigon” in 2013, Thuy has since continued to provide consultation and training for oral history to diverse groups in academia and beyond. In 2021, she worked with a team in the UCI Libraries to develop an Oral History Toolkit, a free resource that empowers community members to document their own stories. Thuy serves on the board of directors for Arts OC and the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association.
