Duc Hien Nguyen, PhD (He/They)

Welcome to my home page!

I am a feminist political economist with special interest in Marxist feminist theory, LGBT economics, social inequality, and the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality.

The key questions I explore are how normative sex/gender institutions generate economic disparity for gender and sexual minorities, and how they reproduce other structural forces of races, class, and citizenship. Reflecting my interdisciplinary training and interests, my scholarship is situated at the intersection of economic theories and critical theories, including feminist theories, queer theories, critical race theories, and Marxian political economy.

As a queer person and a queer scholar, my research and teaching are my ways of engaging with what is normally queer and what is queerly normal. At a time when the “normal” is leading us toward catastrophic ruins, what can we gain from thinking and being more queerly?

This website contains more information about me, my research, and my teaching.

“Care is the courage to challenge the injustice of what preceded the end, and the outrage to condemn the perversity of insisting that someone ought to be alive in a world that cares little to support them.

Care is the hard work of collectively fighting for an economic infrastructure that could provide universally and abundantly for our living.

Care is showing up, even if only to feel the pain, to bear witness, to grapple with the question of complicity, with what could be done differently.

Care is the way in which we are woven into each other’s life and help making it more possible.”

— Three Essays on Gender and Sexuality: Heteronormativity, Femininity, Intersectionality (2024).