Jana Lipman is a Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates (UC Press, 2020), Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution (UC Press, 2009), and co-translator with Bac Hoai Tran of Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate by Trần Đình Trụ (University of Hawaii Press, 2017). Lipman has also been involved in numerous public history initiatives including, the Guantánamo Public Memory Project and the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice’s exhibit, “ ‘Don’t Stand Alone’: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans.” She teaches classes in US foreign relations, US immigration history, US labor history, and public history, and she has written essays for the Washington Post Made by History, The New Orleans Advocate/Times Picayune, and The Conversation.com.

Along with Allison Truitt, she will be working on an edited volume based on papers delivered at a symposium entitled “Stories of Refugeeness: 50 Years of Vietnamese Diasporic, Global, and Coastal Connections,” organized at Tulane University in January 2025.

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