The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War: Fashion, Citizenship, and Nationalism (1954–1975) with Ann Marie Leshkowich and Martina Thucnhi Nguyen

Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology at College of the Holy Cross. She researches gender, economic transformation, class, fashion, and social work in Vietnam. She is author of Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014; awarded Harry J. Benda Prize, 2016) and co-editor of Traders in Motion: Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace (Cornell University Press, 2018), Neoliberalism in Vietnam (positions: asia critique, 2012), and Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress (Berg, 2003). Her research has been published in American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, and Fashion Theory. Nguyen, Leshkowich, and Tuong Vu (University of Oregon) are co-curators of the exhibition, “The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War: Fashion, Citizenship, and Nationalism (1954–1975),” on view at College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) through December 19, 2025. Martina Thucnhi Nguyen is Associate Professor of History at Baruch College, City University of New York. She is the author of On Our Own Strength: The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam.