United States Foreign Policy/International Cold War

Professor Nguyen specializes in the interaction between the United States and the world, with spatial focus on Southeast Asia and temporal interest in the Cold War.  She is currently working on an international history of the Vietnam War particularly from 1968 to 1973.  Her manuscipt relies on multiarchival research carried out in Vietnam, the United States, France, England, and Hungary.  Before joining the History Department at the University of Kentucky, Professor Nguyen received predoctoral fellowships from the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.  After receiving her doctorate from Yale University, she earned a research fellowship from the International Security Studies at Yale.

Professor Nguyen has published articles and reviews in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies and the Journal of Asian Studies as well as essays in edited volumes including Indochina in the Balance; The Third Indochina War; Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars; The Dilemmas of Power: American Foreign Policy under Nixon, Kissinger, and Ford.  In addition to her manuscipt, Professor Nguyen is co-authoring a textbook entitled,The Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975: An International History.