{"id":3629,"date":"2022-08-24T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3629"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:27:18","slug":"thao-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/profile\/thao-nguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"Thao Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Thao P. Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant, is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology. She is also the UX Design Program Manager at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/\">BU Spark!<\/a> and a research affiliate at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/antiracism-center\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/antiracism-center\/\">Center for Anti-racist Research<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" title=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/\">Precarity Lab<\/a>. Her research interests center on gender &amp; sexuality, sociology of labor, economic sociology, and digital sociology. She primarily writes about love, sex &amp; desire in academic and pop-culture formats. She also believes that sociological research should contribute to social change. For more information on Nguyen&#8217;s research and publications, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/profile\/thao-p-nguyen\/\">her webage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>In Spring 2022, Nguyen received travel funding to present at the <a href=\"https:\/\/globaldigitalcultures.uva.nl\/content\/events\/events\/2022\/06\/conference-global-perspectives-on-platforms-and-cultural-production.html?cb\">Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production Conference<\/a>\u00a0provided by CISS. For more information on this grant and the grant recipients, see our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/2022\/06\/17\/2022-faculty-and-graduate-student-awardees\/\">featured article here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11707,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14262,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3629\/revisions\/14262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}