Education
BA, Music, Dartmouth College
MA, Ethnomusicology, UCLA
PhD, Ethnomusicology, UCLA

Contact
Email: ktran@glendale.edu

Dr. Kim Tran is interested in the intersection of the performing arts and politics, particularly in contemporary communist/socialist countries and their diasporas. She has conducted multi-sited fieldwork in Vietnam and in the Vietnamese refugee community in California. Her research has been supported by multiple US Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships. Her research on the Vietnamese musical theater genre hát bội centers around the role of music and the performing arts in constructing cultural memories that often contest official written histories. Kim has taught (as Teaching Assistant, Associate, and Fellow) courses such as: African American Musical Heritage, Music of Africa, Music of Asia, Chicano/Latino Music in the US, Sociology of Music, Psychology of Film Music, Jazz in American Culture, Global Popular Music, and Music of Bollywood. She has presented papers or participated on panels at meetings of the Association for Asian American Studies, CHIME (Chinese Music Europe), the Association for Asian Performance, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. She is also the education manager for the new music chamber ensemble and arts organization Bridge to Everywhere (www.bridgetoeverywhere.org).