Welcome!

My name is Andrew Nova Le (he/him/his). I am a Assistant Professor of Sociology in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics and Faculty Associate at The Asia Center at Arizona State University. I received my PhD from the Sociology Department at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

My research interests include: international migration, race & ethnicity, Asia/Asia America, political & global sociology, social theory, and qualitative research methods. My research has been published in various venues including Journal of Peasant Studies, Sociological Forum, Social Currents, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Ethnicities.

My work has received numerous awards including: Winner of the Sociological Forum’s 35th Anniversary Graduate Student Paper Competition, the ASA Theory section’s Best Student Paper Award, ASA International Migration section’s Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award, and ASA Asia & Asian American section’s Graduate Student Paper Award.

For my teaching and mentorship, I have received UCLA’s inaugural Silton Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award and Teaching Assistant Award. At ASU, I’ve received a Professor of Impact Award.

My book project, Opportunistic Brokerage and the Art of Migration, is an ethnographic study examining how the privatization of migration control has constrained the freedom of Vietnamese persons to leave their country, and yet how migrants still subvert migration control to earn a livelihood abroad.

My research is global with sites in Vietnam, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Seattle, and Los Angeles.