Cindy Nguyễn

Dr. Cindy Anh Nguyen is assistant professor in Information Studies, Digital Humanities, and Asian Languages & Culture at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her multifaceted digital humanities work bridges computation and critical data analysis as a commitment to global south cultural heritage and community engaged research. Her transdisciplinary research examines the historical and socio-technical production of knowledge in Southeast Asia through libraries, encyclopedia, visual media, and language through feminist, decolonial, and critical approaches. Her book, Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2026) uncovers how libraries functioned as instruments of colonial dominance and an experimental space of public critique. Her work has appeared in multiple journals and numerous edited volumes on history and digital humanities.