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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A historian and cultural studies scholar specializing in Asian American Studies, the Vietnam Wars, and 20th-century U.S. history, with a dedicated focus on studies of race and ethnicity, her research delves into the archives of forced migrations, maritime Southeast Asia, Asian diasporas, and the material histories of refugee movements in the South China Sea.

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She was a recipient of the American Association for University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship and the USC-Mellon Humanities in the Digital World 2024-2025 Fellowship. ​Ann's writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Radical History Review, The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, and The SAGE Encyclopedia for Refugee Studies.

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Born in Saigon and raised in Dallas, Texas, she currently lives in Los Angeles with her partner and her two adorable pugs.