Education

Ewha Womans University

Honors and Awards

Ewha Global Partnership Program Scholarship (EGPP)

• Fully funded scholarship awarded by Ewha Womans University upon university entrance for candidates with leadership potential.
• Covering full tuition (including admission fee), housing fee (for dormitory residents), stipend, and flight tickets.
• Engaged in cultural exchange events with fellow EGPP scholars.

Inchoon Scholarship

• Fully funded scholarship awarded by Inchoon Foundation upon university nomination.
• Covering full tuition (including admission fee) and stipend.

Research Experience

Ewha Womans University

Seoul, South Korea

02/2021 – Present

• Instructor: Dr. Leif-Eric Easley, Department of International Studies
• Conducted qualitative research design and research writing through drafting a research paper on the New Southern Policy of the Moon Administration, titled “Seoul’s Southern Strategy: Demonstrating Capacity to North Korea, Navigating U.S.-China Rivalry”

Department of International Studies, Ewha Womans University

Seoul, South Korea

02/2021 – 06/2021

• Title: “Nationalistic Narrative-Building among Vietnamese Generation Z During Covid-19: A Resistance Identity against U.S. Dominant Liberal Discourse”
• Advisor: Dr. Trent M. Bax, Department of Sociology
• Grade: A+
• Carried out interdisciplinary research on nationalism, liberalism, identity politics, discourse-power matrix, and digital cultures
• Sharpened skills in designing qualitative research and doing in-depth interviews, discourse analysis, and textual analysis on social media contents.

Publications

The Diplomat Magazine

In Vietnam, Many Are Mourning the Downfall of an American Idol

• Pham, Duong Thi Thuy, and Quynh Thuy Truong. “In Vietnam, Many Are Mourning the Downfall of an American Idol,” November 12, 2020. https://thediplomat.com/2020/11/in-vietnam-many-are-mourning-the-downfall-of-an-american-idol/.
• Conducted semi-formal interviews and digital ethnography to study Vietnamese identity expressions during the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The Diplomat Magazine

Bittersweet: Vietnam’s Mixed Progress on E-Government During COVID-19

• Truong, Quynh Thuy and Duong Thi Thuy Pham. “Bittersweet: Vietnam’s Mixed Progress on E-Government During COVID-19,” July 16, 2021. https://thediplomat.com/2021/07/bittersweet-vietnams-mixed-progress-on-e-government-during-covid-19/.
• Conducted semi-formal interviews with governmental officials, policy analysts etc. and traditional ethnography to report on the performance of Vietnamese e-government during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Presentations

International Studies Association’s 2021 Annual Convention (April 2021)

• Title: The Making of the “China Virus”: Liberal Sentimentalism in Public Opinion During COVID 19 Pandemic and Its Outcomes for Global Governance.
• Conducted interdisciplinary research on identity politics, historical Western liberal sentimentalism, U.S. media etc.
• Practiced discourse analysis, textual analysis of media content, popular cultures, and grass-root digital expressions.

International Studies Association’s 2022 Annual Convention (abstract accepted)

• Title: Normalized State Surveillance and Bottom-Up Surveillance in Vietnam During COVID-19: The Sentimental Mass and Foucauldian State-People Power Relation.

Work Experience

• Class: Introduction to International Development Studies
• Professor: Dr. Pham Quang Minh
• Facilitated discussion sessions, assisted students in presentations and assignments.

• Wrote on a bimonthly basis on a multidisciplinary range of topics, including philosophical self, gender and beauty industry, politics during COVID-19, self-surveillance, and social media and human agency.

• Conducted interviews with governmental officials and the public in a project on public policy on water pollution in Vietnam.
• Studied Vietnamese media content to examine media agenda and attitude regarding water pollution in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Extracurricular Activities

Co-founder

09/2020 – now

• Encouraged young scholars across Northeast and Southeast Asia to voice up on their personal, national, regional stories through writings, interviews, and live discussions.
• Cultivated cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural exchange through interactions with scholars from across and outside East Asia and diverse education backgrounds.
• Organized “World War II in East Asia: Storytelling and Narrative-Building Workshop“
  • Worked with Dr. Xu Xin from Cornell University, Dr. Charles Cabell from Waseda University, Dr. Suh Myung Sahm from Ewha Womans University, Dr. Clay Eaton from Yale-NUS College, and 50 students across Northeast and Southeast Asia to foster a constructive dialogue on regional history and reconciliation.

• Participated in cross-disciplinary lectures, discussions, and presentations on post-Cold War Germany’s re-unification and contemporary unification aspirations on the Korean peninsula from historical, political, economic, cultural, and international relations angles.
• Engaged in multicultural communications with peers from across Asia and Europe in cultural exchange events.

• Represented the U.S. Department of State in a simulated diplomatic summit organized by the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam.
• Fostered active listening, relationship building, problem-solving skills in engaging with fellow participants in diplomatic setting.

• Represented the United States (first session) and the World Health organization (second session) in the International Court of Justice.
• Fostered active listening, relationship building, problem-solving skills in engaging with fellow participants in a multicultural setting.