Based in Saigon, Uyen's research broadly focuses on grief, memory, and urban space, and has received support from Fulbright. Combining speculative fiction with ethnography, her work invokes symbols and specters to think about:

• ancestral memory & the poetics of family

• ethnographic craft, form, and fictions

• Vietnamese surrealism, myths, and ghosts

• the urban afterlives of Vietnam

In the past, her research explored Saigon at the intersection of memory, crumbling buildings, and postwar life. Her undergraduate senior honors thesis, Being With, written amid Covid-19 lockdowns, considered how memories of the city form among Gen Zers by way of silence, café apartments, and a collaborative form of digital ethnography.

Explore more of her academic life here.