Hai Nguyen

Hai Nguyen

Director, Global Vietnam Wars Studies Initiative
Hai Nguyen

Hai Nguyen, Ph.D. is the co-founder and director of the Global Vietnam Wars Studies Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center.

His works are unique in using hidden memory and untold oral history to create new scholarship of the Indochina Wars and advance a wider range of Southeast Asia studies that represent multiple disciplines and various perspectives—local, regional, global, historic, and contemporary. He has been leading research projects of the Vietnam Wars and their legacies funded by the First Infantry Division Museum, Luce Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Defense.

His works were published in the three-volume Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, The New York Times, among other publications. Nguyen’s ongoing works at Harvard University enable an innovative academic platform of digital humanities while fostering cultural, intellectual, healing, and reconcilable efforts between the U.S. and Southeast Asia nations.