University of Southern California, Department of Sociology

RESEARCH PROJECTS

6/2006-Present Project: "'I'm Going Home': Dimensions and Trajectories in the Lives of Second-Generation Vietnamese American Caodais in Southern California" (Advisor Janet Hoskins)

1/2008-Present Project: "The Influences of Ethnic Heritage and Experiences on the Transmission of Values and Religious Practices across Generations" (USC Transmission of Religions across Generations Study, Advisor Vern Bengtson)

6/2004-8/2004 Project:"Un-bounding the Frontiers of Assimilation: Homeland Activities of Vietnamese American Youth Leaders and Their Organizations."
(Yale University Graduate School, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Advisor Christopher Rhomberg)

3/2003-9/2004 Project: "Mexican American Student Activism During the 1930s" (History Departmental Honors Thesis, Advisors Juan Gomez-Quinones and Carlos Haro)

8/2003-6/2004 Project: "An Escape to Nowhere: Online Identities of College Women in Vietnam" (Southeast Asian Studies Departmental Honors Thesis, Advisor Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo)

1/2004-3/2004 Project: "From Misinformation to Unwanted Mastectomy: Why Vietnamese American Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer are not Making Informed Decisions" (Center for American Politics and Public Policy, Advisors James Desveaux and Marjorie Kagawa-Singer)

6/2003-8/2003 Project: "Constructing an Identity: The Case of 1.5 and Second Generation Vietnamese American Leaders in Southern California" (UCLA Graduate Division, Summer Programs for Undergraduate Research, Advisor Min Zhou)

RESEARCH EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCES

5/2007-Present "Ethnic Resilience" and Indigenous Religion: A Transnational Perspective on Vietnamese Immigrant Congregations in California (Janet Hoskins), Research Assistant

5/2007-Present California Votes Initiative (Michelle R. Michelson, Lisa Garcia Bedolla, and Donald P. Green), Research Observer

8/2007-5/2008 USC Transmission of Religions across Generations Study (Vern Bengtson), Research Assistant

6/2007-3/2008 Transnational Religions (Janet Hoskins), Research Assistant
Documentary -- The Left Eye of God: Caodaism Travels from Vietnam to California

6/2006-7/2007 USC Transmission of Religions across Generations (Vern Bengtson), Interviewer

5/2006-1/2007 USC Brain Fitness Computer Software Study (Robert Kennison), Clinical Education Specialist

5/2006-12/2006 Cultural Production in Vietnam (Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo), Graduate Assistant

3/2006-9/2006 "Caodai Esoterism: Visions and Prophecies in Vietnam and California" (Janet Hoskins), Research Assistant

1/2004-3/2004 National Research Center for Women and Families, Student Researcher Intern

1/2002-6/2003; 3/2004-6/2004 UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Chicano Education Research Project (Carlos Haro), Student Researcher

1/2002-6/2003 UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education (Kent Wong), Staff Researcher's Assistant

6/2002-8/2002 AFL-CIO (William Kramer), Summer Research Intern at the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education