Dr. Nina Ha

Nina Ha is the Director of the APIDA + Center and affiliated faculty in Sociology at Virginia Tech. She has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an M.A. in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. from Smith College. Her academic expertise is in Vietnamese and diasporic literature, Asian American Studies, Ethnic American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Global/Transnational Studies. Through her initiative, the U.S. Department of Education designated Virginia Tech as an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution, AANAPISI, which is the first for an institution in Southwest Virginia.