Publications

Tran, V.A., & Blanco, M.Y. (2024). Belonging despite borders: An autoethnographic response to U.S. imperialism, migration and identity. In P.A. Boda (Ed.), This house will not dismantle itself: Critical future in education (pp. 43-57). DIO Press.

Tran, V.A., Jackson, K., Patel, N., & Beal, L. (2024). "I'm glad it's us:" Reflections on a teacher professional development experience designed by women of color. In L.M. Evans, K. Allen, &C. Turner (Eds.), Advancing Critical Praxis and Pedagogy Across Educational Settings. (pp. 297-324). Brill Publishing.

Tran, V.A. (2023). #FreeThemAll: Civic Action through Southeast Asian community defense digital toolkits. In K.E. Duncan (Ed.), Civic Engagement in Communities of Color: Pedagogy for Learning and Life in a More Expansive Democracy (pp. 73-93). Teachers College Press.

DISSERTATION Tran, V.A. (2022). SEA-ing Ourselves, SEA-ing Each Other: Toward Healing-Centered Re-Memory. Columbia University. 

Tran, V.A. (2022). We are here: Civic Education Through Southeast Asian Deportation Community Defense. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 34(3), 25-32.

Tran, V.A. (2022). The refugeetude of Lady Trieu: Pedagogies of displacement in HBO's Watchmen. In D. Friedrich, D. Corson, & D. Hollman (Eds.), Pop culture and curriculum, assemble! Exploring the limits of curricular humanism through pop culture (pp. 261-283). DIO Press Inc. 

Tran, V.A., Saunders, E., Reid, S., & Fube, L. (2022). Conceptions of care and graduate student researcher positionality: Struggling to reconcile "researcher" care with personal moral commitments. In V. Vasudevan, N. Gross, P. Nagarajan, & K. Colnan-Roy (Eds.), Care-based methdologies: Reimagining qualitative research with youth in US schools (pp. 175-186). Bloomsbury.

Tran, V.A. (2021). Refugee possibilities. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, 246, 139-141.

Book Review of: August, T.K. (2020). The refugee aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America. Temple University Press. 

Tran, V.A. (2019). Book Review of Radical Imagine Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis, P. McLaren, S. SooHoo (Eds.), Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. New York (2018). The Journal of Social Studies Research, 43(3), 323-325. 

Tran, V.A. (2018). Book Review of Critical multicultural perspectives on whiteness: Views from the past and present, V. Lea, D.E. Lund, P.R. Carr (Eds.), Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York (2018). The Journal of Social Studies Research, 43(1), 77-81.