Nguyen Vu Hoang, University of Toronto

From: Vsg [mailto:vsg-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca

Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 7:02 PM

To: vsg@u.washington.edu

Subject: [Vsg] Successful Doctoral Dissertation Defence in Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Dear list.

It is my great pleasure to inform you that two PhD candidates have successfully defended their dissertations in the past few days in Canada:

1. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, "Politics of Memory: (Re)Construction of the Past in Post-socialist Vietnam" PhD dissertation in Cultural Studies, Trent University, successfully defended on 7 October 2016. (focus on the memory and commemoration of DRVN soldiers dying in wars by 1975) (I served as external examiner at Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa's defence)

2. Nguyen Vu Hoang, "Disasters, Settlements and the Homeland: Vietnamese American Experiences of White Supremacy in New Orleans" PhD dissertation in Anthropology, University of Toronto, successfully defended on 13 October 2016.

Congratulations to both Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa and Nguyen Vu Hoang!

Hy V. Luong

Professor of Anthropology

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2S2.