Victoria Tran
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies
Race and ethnicity, Asian and Asian American ethnic studies, urban sociology.
BA 2016 University of Virginia.
MA 2021, PhD 2026 University of California, Los Angeles.
91ÁÔÆæ 2026-.
Victoria Tran studies Asian American ethnic groups, urban politics, and local governance to examine how the government and community groups construct ideas of ethnic and spatial communities to push for policies surrounding redevelopment, policing, and neighborhood revitalization. This work studies the dynamics between community members and the government over the community’s power to shape their own neighborhoods, how the construction of racial and ethnic communities are influenced by class and immigration histories, and how competing interests within a community negotiate whose needs should be prioritized. She also studies how urban policies around housing and local governance affect low-income residents.
Publications
Tran, Victoria and Katherine Smock. 2025. “Between the City and the People: The Pitfalls and Potential of Hyper-local Governance on the Homelessness Crisis in Los Angeles.” Journal of Urban Affairs 0(0):1–16. doi:.
Kaur, Harleen and Victoria Tran. 2023. “The Limits of Imperial Incorporation: Alternative Sociological Frameworks to Study Asian American Subjects.” Sociology Compass 17(3):e13069. doi:.
Courses Taught at Reed
- SOC 245 / CRES 245 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- SOC 341 / CRES 341 - Asian American Geographies