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Areas of specialization:

• Mennonite history
• Gender studies
• History of immigration and ethnicity in Canada

Personal website

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• Gender and Sikhism/religion and women
• Gender construction and the new media

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• Comparative literature
• 16th-Century Italian literature
• Women writers of the Italian Cinquecento

Personal website

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• Trauma and medical personnel through letters, diaries and memoirs

Personal website

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• Early modern Spanish prose and theatre
• Early modern Hispanic female writers
• Italian Commedia Dell'Arte Tradition

• Gender
• Feminist theories
• Women’s health
• Leisure
• Qualitative methodologies 

Pronouns: she/they

Kim Hong Nguyen (she/they) is a scholar of Vietnamese descent appointed as Associate Professor of Communication Arts, cross-appointed with Gender & Social Justice. 

Nguyen’s research examines controversies over the political correctness or civility of a word, a trope, an expression, an analogy, or a cultural practice. It aims to explore how the capacity of marginalized peoples to act or speak effectively is not wholly dependent upon their articulate use of eloquent language, sound argument, or stirring performance, but rather is conditioned by governing systems of power.

In 2025, Nguyen was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant for Resisting Chemical Futures in the Waterloo Region: A Curatorial Project. With Dr. Rohini Patel, the grant will develop a museum exhibit at the City of Waterloo Museum about water and environmental activism in the Waterloo Region during the Elmira Water Crisis: a pivotal moment in regional history where issues of chemical warfare manufacturing, natural resources, settler colonialism, disability, and local economic development coincide. Set to open in 2027, the goal of the exhibit will be to commemorate community efforts at anti-war/anticolonial, health, and environmental justice. 

Nguyen’s book with University of Illinois Press’ Feminist Media Studies book series, Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss, considers terms, such as ‘Bitch’ ‘feminism’ ‘power couple’ ‘postfeminism’, from a postcolonial and intersectional lens. This book won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2024) and Outstanding Book Award by Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender (2024) and has been reviewed in venues including: Journal of Popular Culture, Rhetoric Review, Ms. Magazine, and Jezebel.

Nguyen's research has appeared in leading cultural studies journals including: Communication Culture and Critique, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Politics, Howard Journal of Communication, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention, and Journal of Communication Inquiry. In addition, Nguyen has edited a collection of essays on neoliberal rhetoric entitled Rhetoric in Neoliberalism.

Nguyen serves on the Board for the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender (OSCLG), the Editorial Board for Peitho Journal, as at-large representative of the Executive Board for Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CFSHRC), and the Association Name Task Force for the National Women’s Studies Association.

Outside of university work, Nguyen is actively involved in supporting our communities. Nguyen is vice-chair of the Creative Sector Advisory Committee for the City of Waterloo. Growing up in a refugee family that fostered several refugee children, Nguyen also serves on the Board of Directors for the Family and Children’s Services of the Waterloo Region. 

Areas of specialization:

• Bisexual visibility/politics
• Queer Theory
• Representations of gender & sexuality in popular culture
• Horror and abjection
• Body politics

Pronouns: she/her, they/them

Areas of specialization

Reproductive health, women's health activism, oral history, media and women's rights

Areas of Interest

Hodinohso:ni history and culture, Indigenous tangible and intangible cultures in Museums and Archives, Tekéni Teyohà:ke Kahswénhtake/Tehontatenenstsonterontahkwa (Two Row Wampum/Covenant Chain) research methodology, Culture and language regeneration, Community-based research, Beadwork, tufting, quillwork, leatherwork, regalia-making

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Secularism and religious difference, displacement, borders, and asylum, minority lives and archives, gender ideologies, Muslim lifeworlds, Anthropology of Turkey, Cyprus, the Middle East

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Deliberative democracy, activism, structural justice, Feminist theory and practice, deliberative consociationalism.

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feminist philosophy of science, feminist epistemology, feminist philosophy of biology, socially relevant philosophy of science, gender and diversity in STEM, animal studies

(they/them)

Areas of Specialization/Interest:

• Settler colonialism
• Social movements
• Abolitionist and decolonizing social work
• Popular culture and radical change
• Trans-disciplinary social justice pedagogy
• Urban materialization
• Accounting history
• Indigenous theory
• Migrant justice movements
• Nationalism and sovereignty
• Queer, trans, and non-binary participation in sport
• Baseball history

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2SLGBTQ communities and sexuality studies; Disability studies; Parenting and families; Critical social work practice; Feminist research methods; History and philosophy of healthcare and social services; Critical autism and neurodiversity studies.

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Committed to building inclusive communities both within and outside educational environments, her work is grounded in her knowledge of how to put anti-oppression theories into practice. 

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Science and Technology Studies (STS) and global health, biomedical technologies, science and health governance and ethics, and food and water security.

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Leisure, well-being, and wellness, intersectionality, politics of care labour/work, caring practices, culture change, and leisure in long-term care, Critical, critical race, feminist theories, Qualitative methodologies (narrative inquiry, community-engaged and action-oriented research), Arts-based and digital methods.

Areas of Interest

• Racist and sexist language
• Diversifying Academia
• Implicit bias
• Pragmatics
• Deception