Nguyen Quang Dung

Nguyen Quang Dung was born in Hoi An City, Vietnam. He obtained his BA in Oriental Studies from Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, and worked there as a research assistant at the Center for Vietnamese-Southeast Asian Studies. In 2007, he won a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to study in the MA program of Southeast Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.  In 2011, he was offered the NUS-HYI Joint Doctoral Scholarship and is now a PhD candidate in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS.  His research interests are ethnic identity, education for the hill tribes in Thailand, and ethnic language loss.