Giang Trinh began her work as lead researcher for the Ash Center’s Unseen Legacies of the Vietnam War project in 2021. With her background in the Vietnam War and Vietnamese history, she supported the project by extracting and reviewing high-value information from battlefield documents. She was also responsible for returning essential information gleaned from the project’s research to family members and descendants of those missing or killed in action.
As a member of the History Department faculty at Hanoi National University of Education in Vietnam since 2008, Trinh has worked extensively examining battlefield documents and oral histories as part of her work exploring the Vietnamese perspectives of the Vietnam War, the Sino-Vietnamese relationship, and the U.S.– Vietnamese relations during and after the Cold War. Her expertise spans Vietnam and the entire region, familiarizing her with various battlefields and fronts and enabling her success on another Harvard project, Forgotten Voices from Laos and Cambodia. Trinh’s current research focuses on Sino-Vietnamese relations during the 1960s from ordinary North Vietnamese perspectives.