Based in Da Lat, Vietnam, Uyen's research is broadly concerned with built environments, space and place, and the historical traces that linger in dwelling places, and has received support from Fulbright, Dartmouth, and Yale. Her work is interested in troubling terrestrial and ocular ways of knowing in order to consider:

• Architectures and afterlives of rest

• Botanical governance & vernacular botany

• Place memory, imaginaries, attachments

• Tropics, tropicalization, tropicality

In the past, her research explored HCMC/Saigon at the intersection of memory, crumbling apartment blocks, and postwar life. Her undergraduate senior honors thesis, Being With, written amid Covid-19 lockdowns in Vietnam, engaged café apartments in Saigon and a collaborative form of digital ethnography to explore how memories of the city are simultaneously shaping and being shaped by its Gen Zers.

Explore more of her academic life here.