Allen Tran

Educational Background

• Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
• B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Research and Teaching Interests

• Medical Anthropology
• Psychological Anthropology
• Cross-cultural Psychiatry
• Vietnam and Southeast Asia

Courses Typically Offered

• ANTH109: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH243: Violence and Politics in Southeast Asia
• ANTH283: Theory in Anthropology
• ANTH290: Medical Anthropology
• ANTH312: Global Health

Selected Publications

Books

• A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety. University of California Press. 2023.

Journal articles

• With Trần Đan Tâm, Hà Thúc Dũng, and Nguyễn Cúc Trâm. Drug adherence, medical pluralism, and psychopharmaceutical selfhood in postreform Vietnam. Transcultural Psychiatry. 57(1): 81-93. 2020.
• The anxiety of romantic love in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 24(3): 512-531. 2018.
• "The anxiety of well-being: Medicalizations of worry in a Vietnamese psychiatric hospital". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 31(2): 198-217. 2016.
• "Rich sentiments and the cultural politics of emotion in postreform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam". American Anthropologist. 117(3): 480-492. 2015.