Welcome

Hi! Thank you for visiting my website. I am Dr. Chi Nguyen, an interdisciplinary educational sociologist. My research focuses on educational equity, social justice, and diversity in K-12 and higher education. I am an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Arizona.

My Ph.D. is in Educational Leadership and Comparative & International Education (dual-title degree) from The Pennsylvania State University. I earned a master’s degree in Education, Culture, and Society from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Hanoi University.

Having a social justice-driven research agenda, I explore issues related to social justice leadership, both inside and outside the school—in particular, school leaders and nonprofit/community organizers—in order to develop new ways of thinking about the causes of, and solutions to, educational inequity in the United States and globally. Using ethnography, document analysis, quantitative inquiry, and mixed methods, my work investigates how educational opportunity has been distributed in different societies, racial and ethnic groups, income levels, and geographical locations. Comparing the practices of social justice leadership across cultural, national, and institutional settings, my research contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of inequity and the interventions made by educational leaders to close the achievement gap for underprivileged students.

My recent studies investigate the impact of educational and immigrant policies on immigrant students in the United States and explore the postsecondary educational aspirations of high school students in rural and urban Vietnam. A list of my publications can be found here.

I am also a book author and blogger. I write about life lessons, personal development, minimalism, and study advice on my Vietnamese site: The Present Writer.

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