PhD Candidate, Sociology
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Thao P. Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant, is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology. She is also the UX Design Program Manager at BU Spark! and a research affiliate at the Center for Anti-racist Research and Precarity Lab. Her research interests center on gender & sexuality, sociology of labor, economic sociology, and digital sociology. She primarily writes about love, sex & desire in academic and pop-culture formats. She also believes that sociological research should contribute to social change. For more information on Nguyen’s research and publications, visit her webage.
In Spring 2022, Nguyen received travel funding to present at the Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production Conference provided by CISS. For more information on this grant and the grant recipients, see our featured article here.