Interview with Van Anh Bui-Tran : Alumni Stories
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Van Anh Bui-Tran (BA History, 2013; MA Education, 2014) describes her background growing up in Little Saigon, a Vietnamese ethnic enclave in Orange County, and hearing many stories about her father’s experience as a post-war Vietnamese refugee. She explains her social adjustment to Stanford, the joy she found in building her own curriculum as History major, and her activism via Asian American student organizations. In talking about her graduate work, she discusses her experience with STEP (Stanford Teacher Education Program) and her work as a history teacher, followed by her decision to go into a PhD program. She laments about the unsustainability of the pressure and stress she experienced as a student. Lastly, she advises future Stanford students to extend grace to themselves and asks how the institutional framework might be altered so that students do not feel this overwhelming pressure.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Extent | 1 text file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
| Date created | October 21, 2022 - |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Bui-Tran, Van Anh | |
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| Creator | Bui-Tran, Van Anh | |
| Interviewer | Pollock, Jordan | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford University. Students > 2010s |
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| Subject | Universities and colleges |
| Subject | College students |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Biographical Profile | Dr. Van Anh Bui-Tran is the Assistant Director of Field Experience at the Lurie College of Education at San José State University. A former history teacher in East San Jose, she currently supports the field experiences of teacher candidates in the community where she learned to teach. Van Anh graduated with honors from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public History and a Master of Arts in Education. She received her PhD in Social Studies Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include refugee narratives, collective memory, community organizing and action, healing justice, and notions of belonging. Van Anh is passionate about supporting humanizing and sustaining pedagogies, curriculum and instruction. She lives in the Bay Area with her Stanford sweetheart husband and their two dogs. They will soon be joined by a new baby! |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yj466by3377 |
| Location | SC0932 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022
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