An Hoang-Xuan

Specializations

Cultural Anthropology; Whiteness in the United-States; Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality; white power movements; white male supremacy; violence; white domestic terrorism; patriotism

An Hoàng-Xuân is a first year Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She was born and educated in Paris, France where she obtained two Master's degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon: one in English studies and another in education. She was an exchange student and research/teaching assistant to Lawrence Richardson Distinguished Cultural Anthropology Professor James Lorand Matory at Duke University for two consecutive years (Spring semesters of 2022 and 2023). Her interests include the study of the role and impact of white masculinity as a social construction on reactive radical ideologies such as white nationalism and white power movements. She aims at demonstrating how being a “real American” connects to being “a real man” in the context of American patriotism. Her research also focuses on male supremacists movements such as the MRAs, PUA and incels, the concept of "aggrieved entitlement" and its potential for violence as it relates to white domestic terrorism. She wrote two master's theses (Make American White Again: An Intersectional Study of White Supremacy (2020) & Stand Back and Stand By: Aggrieved Masculinity and the Rise of White Domestic Terrorism (2022)) and conducted in-depth `field work in North Carolina during her time at Duke, driving to gun shows and rallies to interview participants. 

She was awarded the Russell G.Hamilton Graduate fellowship by the University of Vanderbilt in 2023 when she was admitted.