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

• Architectures of rest, refuge, and belonging

• Refugee aesthetics, arrangements of home

• Place memory, imaginaries, attachments

• Diaspora as space, inheritance, storytelling

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 in Vietnam, engaged with 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.