Thuy Vo Dang

Dr. Thuy Vo Dang (she/her/hers) is a professor of Information Studies at UCLA and former Curator for the Southeast Asian Archive and Research Librarian for Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine Libraries. She has a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego, with expertise on Southeast Asian diaspora, oral history, ethnography and community archives. Her current work advances community-centered archives practice, an approach that centers the preservation and access to histories of historically marginalized groups. She is co-author of the books, A People’s Guide to Orange County (2022), an alternative history and tour guide of Orange County that documents sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation, and Vietnamese in Orange County (2015), a visual history of the largest Vietnamese diaspora. Thuy serves on the board of directors for Arts OC and the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association.