Research
Nhu Truong's research maps the sites and vectors of social resistance against power and domination, and the shifting parameters of authoritarian responses to social unrest in Southeast Asia and East Asia. Truong has published in Democratization, Journal of East Asian Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and with Cambridge University Press. Her research has been supported by various grants and fellowships, including the Senior Research Fellowship from the Center for Khmer Studies, the Asia Workshops Alumni Professional Development Grant from the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, and the Rosenberg Institute Scholar Fellowship.
Selected Publications
Truong, Nhu, Elvin Ong, and Maggie Shum. 2024. “Agents of Resistance: Resolve and Repertoires against Autocratization in Asia.” Democratization 31 (3): 513–30. doi:10.1080/13510347.2024.2318384
Truong, Nhu, and Duy Trinh. 2023. “Agrarian Agitations: Transcripts of Resistance and Authoritarian Feedback under Vietnam’s Repressive-Responsive Regime.” Democratization 31 (3): 596–615. doi:10.1080/13510347.2023.2273870.
Truong, Nhu, and Tuong Vu, eds. The Dragon’s Underbelly: Dynamics and Dilemmas in Vietnam’s Economy and Politics. ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Truong, Nhu. 2023. "Proactive Responsiveness and Institutionalization in Vietnam’s Offensive Against COVID-19,” in COVID-19 and Political Institutions in Asia-Oceania: Democracy and State Capacity During Times of Crisis, edited by Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann. New York: Routledge, 213-244.
Truong, Nhu. 2021. “Opposition Repertoires Under Authoritarian Rule: Vietnam's 2016 Self-Nomination Movement." Journal of East Asian Studies 21, no. 1: 117–39. https://doi.org/10.1017/jea.2020.43.
Kuhonta, Erik Martinez and Nhu Truong. 2020. "The Institutional Roots of Defective Democracy in the Philippines”, in Stateness and Democracy in East Asia, edited by Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 153-178.
Wang, Juan, and Nhu Truong. 2020. “Law for What? Ideas and Social Control in China and Vietnam.” Problems of Post-Communism 68 (3): 202–15. doi:10.1080/10758216.2020.1783562.
Kuhonta, Erik Martinez and Nhu Truong. 2021. "Southeast Asian Politics," in Political Science, Oxford Bibliography. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199756223-0343.
Truong, Nhu, Dang H. Vo, and Dzung Nguyen. 2019. “State of Land in Vietnam: Growth and Institutions at a Crossroads,” in State of Land in the Mekong Region, edited by Micah Ingalls and Jean-Christophe Diepart. Bern: Bern Open Publishing, 155-176.
Truong, Nhu. 2017. “Institutions Without Belief: Incalculability and Legitimate Domination Under the Chinese Communist Party,” in Asian Politics & Policy, Vol. 9, 4: 636-645.
Selected works in Progress
"Sword and Shield: Securitization and Authoritarian Entrenchment of the Vietnamese Communist Party." Under Review
“Authoritarian Responsiveness with Adjectives and Parameters of Comparison,” to be presented at the International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress in Seoul, South Korea. 12-16 July 2025.
“Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm and the Vietnamese Communist Party’s Corrosion of Intellectual Dissent,” to be presented at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. 11–14 September 2025.
"Party to Party, Heart to Heart: Communist Legacies and Prerogatives in Southeast Asia," to be presented at the Symposium on "The Challenges of Peace: US-Vietnam Relations since 1975." University of California, Berkeley, CA. 18-19 September 2025.
“A “Renaissance” in Comparative Historical Analysis? The Disjuncture Between Quantitative Methods and Macro-Structural Ontology in Asian Political History,” to be presented at the Social Science History Association (SHHA) Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois. 20-23 November 2025.