Jacinda S. Tran is working on her book project, “Search and Destroy: Affective Warfare and Refugee Racialization in the Wake of Vietnam.” The book examines how the surplus of media and affect produced during the Vietnam War proliferated through the securitization of refugee subjects from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam resettled to the seat of US empire “after” the war.

Jacinda S. Tran is an interdisciplinary scholar of visual culture, space, and empire. Her research, writing, and teaching examine the legacies of US militarism across racialized and gendered landscapes. She is currently a visiting lecturer in the Program of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College, teaching in Asian American history and queer studies. Jacinda holds a PhD in American studies from Yale University with a graduate certificate in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and was most recently a global American studies postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.