Project Title: Ascriptive Agents: Vietnamese Political Theories of Race, Gender, and the West
Researcher Bio:
Kevin Pham, University of Amsterdam
Kevin D. Pham is an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam. His work explores the history of nineteenth and twentieth century political thought, focusing on non-Western theories of democracy, colonialism, and freedom. His first book, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (forthcoming with Oxford University Press), is the first book in political theory centered on Vietnamese thinkers. He has degrees from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of California, Riverside. He co-hosts a podcast about Vietnamese intellectual history called Nam Phong Dialogues.
Project Title: Resisting the Prohibition of Child Marriage in Latin America
Researcher Bio:
Andrea Vilán, American University
Andrea Vilán is an Assistant Professor at American University. Her research focuses on international law, human rights, transnational activism, and the impact of domestic politics on international cooperation. Her book manuscript explores the politics of treaty incorporation, illuminating how the distributive and moral conflicts that human rights treaties activate within civil society hinder the incorporation of international treaty provisions into domestic law. The manuscript is based on her dissertation, which won the American Political Science Association’s award for the best dissertation in the field of human rights. Her other work has been published in Journal of Human Rights and Politics & Gender. Andrea’s research has been funded by American University’s Public Affairs & Policy Lab and Helfat Faculty Development Fund, Princeton's Program in Latin American Studies, APSA’s William A. Steiger Fund for Legislative Studies, and the International and Latin American Institutes at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She holds a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and degrees in international relations from Universidad de San Andrés and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina.