Program Involvement
Chung Pham, Ph.D. is a researcher of the Unseen Legacies of the Vietnam War project at Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center.
With 16-year experience in media practices, war legacies, and interdisciplinary research, she supports reviewing verbal testimonies, social media resources and captured battlefield materials from all sides to identify and verify the high value information of Vietnamese war dead and develop materials in new digital archives.
In studying the transitional context between the wartime and peace in Vietnam, she employed projective techniques, archival history resources, and oral histories in Vietnam, U.K and U.S to explore how the war-torn landscape had undergone material transformation, combined with symbolic associations linked to the contemporary history of Vietnam, conflicts of war generation and emergence of a new generation born after 1975.
Her current research addresses war legacies in terms of chosen trauma and chosen glories in China and Vietnam. She published her work in several academic journals of Vietnam and Europe, and her co-authored writings about the transition of contemporary Vietnam in the Financial Times.
She earned a B.A in English at Vietnam National University with a concentration on American studies and an M.A in International Journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University with her interest in war reporting. She received her Ph.D. in media and communication, with her focus on the narratives of Vietnam in the transition wartime at Bournemouth University, England.