Ann Ngoc Tran (she/her/hers) is a 2025-2026 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies and Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. 

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Ann is an interdisciplinary historian of Vietnam's multiple diasporas, with specific interests in boat migrations, Southeast Asian racial economies, and refugee life/deathworlds at the edges of empire and capital. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Non-Arrival: Histories of Drift and Disappearance After the Vietnam War, a study of surplus migration histories beyond nationalist anchors of arrival. Her dissertation was awarded the 2025 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for Best Dissertation by the American Studies Association.

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Ann was a recipient of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship in 2024. ​Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Radical History Review, The Journal of American - East Asian Relations, diaCRITICS, and The SAGE Encyclopedia for Refugee Studies.

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Outside of academia, she volunteers as an archivist at the Vietnamese Heritage Museum in Orange County, California. Born in Saigon and raised in Dallas, Texas, she currently lives in Los Angeles with her partner and her two rambunctious pugs.