Tam Ngo

Tam Ngo is a senior researcher at the NIOD, studying processes of social healing, environmental reparation, and reconciliation politics through the interactive lens of religion and science. Her research examines a wide range of ethnographic settings from postwar Vietnam, Vietnamese diasporas in Europe, Hmong refugees in the US and Vietnamese Chinese refugees in China, to different circles of DNA forensic experts working on human identification and the genetic and ecological destruction of the Vietnam War. She is the author of The New Way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam. She co-edited the double special issue Actions for the Missing: Scientific and Vernacular Forms of War Dead Accounting, which includes her own single-author article, The Tombs of Wind: The Enigmas of Empty Graves, Encrypted Archives and Porous Bones, in Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal.