{"id":1022,"date":"2022-04-01T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=profile&p=1022"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T15:54:52","slug":"kinh-t-vu","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/about\/contact-directions\/directory\/kinh-t-vu\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u00ednh T. Vu"},"content":{"rendered":"

K\u00ednh T. Vu<\/strong>\u00a0is an assistant professor of music in music education at Boston University. He instructs music teacher education courses and advises graduate theses. In 2020, K\u00ednh and his colleague Andr\u00e9 de Quadros published the first-ever volume about forced human displacement and its relationship to music teaching and learning.\u00a0My Body Was Left on the Street: Music Education and Displacement<\/i>\u00a0(Brill-Sense, 2020) includes contributions by incarcerated persons, members of LGBTQ communities, war refugees, climate migrants, children, people experiencing homelessness, and music educators.<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of K\u00ednh\u2019s scholarly-creative production includes a 2023 documentary entitled\u00a0Song of Earthroot<\/i>\u00a0(4th District Company) in which music-making plays a central role in his narrative about adoption, music, and self-discovery.\u00a0Song of Earthroot<\/i>\u00a0was selected for public media\u2019s affiliate Social Impact Film Festival (2024) and received the New York International Film Award (2024) for first time directors of a feature film. K\u00ednh has published book chapters about care, intercultural sensitivity, LGBTQ issues, and adoption as well as research articles focused on engaged pedagogy, global music education, and displacement. Current research projects include a book about transracial-transnational adoption and music education as well as articles on global music pedagogies, forced human displacement, and secondary general music dispositional learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2024, K\u00ednh was awarded the Pennsylvania State University, College of Arts and Architecture, School of Music Distinguished Alumni Award. He recently completed six years as a faculty-in-residence for Boston University\u2019s Residence Life community and one year as a subcommittee chair for the Provost\u2019s Committee on Sexual Assault and Harassment Prevention. Along with Puget Sound University assistant professor of music education Dr. Tina Huynh, K\u00ednh is currently planning the Second AAPI and Asian Canadian Music Education Gathering (conference) which will occur in St. Paul, Minnesota in July 2025. He and Tina convened the first-ever AAPI and Asian Canadian Gathering in Orange County, California in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently observing a leave-of-absence (AY 2024-25) to observe the 50th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of reunification between North and South Vietnam, K\u00ednh lives in Ho Chi Minh City (a.k.a., Saigon) where he was born and subsequently abandoned at the end of the American War in either 1974 or 1975. K\u00ednh earned degrees from Westminster College (PA) (BM), The Pennsylvania State University (MM), and the University of Minnesota (PhD). Aside from work, K\u00ednh enjoys traveling in East and Southeast Asia, exercising, cooking, talking to dogs like they\u2019re people, and admiring sparkly objects such as holiday lights and glitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

K\u00ednh T. V\u0169 On the Power of Music Education<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n