Uyen Phuong Dang is a writer and PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology at Yale. Her
research is based between Dalat and Saigon, Vietnam, where she is broadly concerned with
how spaces of rest and refuge are created, with a particular focus on material inheritances,
(re-)arrangements of dwelling places, and everyday practices of memory and space-making.
She holds a BA in Anthropology from Dartmouth College (2021), where her thesis, written amid
Covid-19 lockdowns in Vietnam, engaged with café apartments in Saigon and a collaborative
form of digital ethnography to explore how memories of the city are simultaneously shaping and
being shaped by its Gen Zers. She was also a recipient of a Fulbright to Saigon (2022-2023),
where she approached questions of land, memory, lineage, and the legacies of mothers to
daughters through ethnography, poetry, and fiction writing. More on her work can be found here.