Welcome
I'm Hanh-Linh (Linh) Tran, a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Emory University. I study repression and political violence, focusing on how communities sustain collective resistance over the long term despite adverse conditions that deplete their resources. My dissertation examines how religious persecution shape long-term protest patterns among Vietnamese Catholics. Another strand of my research examines the political economy of conflict in Southeast Asia. I use mixed methods, combining survey experiments, geocoded micro-level data, archival research, and interviews. My research has been supported by J-PAL's Governance Initiative, the SEAREG Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, and the Institute for Humane Studies.
I am a co-organizer of the Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop and a member of the South China Sea Data Initiative.
I hold an MA in Political Science from Central European University and a BA in English for International Relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.
You can reach me at hanh.linh.tran@emory.edu.
A note on my name: Although my full first name is Hanh-Linh, it can be difficult to pronounce. Please feel free to call me Linh, pronounced as either /lin/ or /liɲ/.