Allen Tran

Allen Tran

Associate Professor of Anthropology
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About Allen Tran

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
  • B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Medical Anthropology
  • Psychological Anthropology
  • Cross-cultural Psychiatry
  • Vietnam and Southeast Asia

Courses Typically Offered

  • ANTH109: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • ANTH243: Violence and Politics in Southeast Asia
  • ANTH283: Theory in Anthropology
  • ANTH290: Medical Anthropology
  • ANTH312: Global Health

Selected Publications

Books

  • A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety. University of California Press. 2023.

Journal articles

  • With Trần Đan Tâm, Hà Thúc Dũng, and Nguyễn Cúc Trâm. Drug adherence, medical pluralism, and psychopharmaceutical selfhood in postreform Vietnam. Transcultural Psychiatry. 57(1): 81-93. 2020.
  • The anxiety of romantic love in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 24(3): 512-531. 2018.
  • "The anxiety of well-being: Medicalizations of worry in a Vietnamese psychiatric hospital". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 31(2): 198-217. 2016.
  • "Rich sentiments and the cultural politics of emotion in postreform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam". American Anthropologist. 117(3): 480-492. 2015.

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