Cindy Anh Nguyen is assistant professor with appointments in Information Studies department, Digital Humanities program, and Asian Languages & Culture at University of California, Los Angeles. Her book, Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam (UC Press, 2026) uncovers how libraries functioned as both instruments of colonial dominance and an experimental space of public critique. Her transdisciplinary research examines the historical and socio-technical production of knowledge in Southeast Asia through libraries, encyclopedia, visual media, and language through feminist, decolonial, and critical approaches. Her work has appeared in Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asia, Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, the Vietnamese American Refugee Experience Model Curriculum, and numerous edited volumes on history and digital humanities. Nguyen is also a public scholar and community artist, follow her work at cindyanguyen.com.
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