James Huỳnh, PhD, MA, MPH

Research

I use queer and feminist theoretical lenses to understand how LGBTQ communities of color sustain their everyday lives and well-being amid social and political death-making conditions.

I have three distinct but connected areas of research.

1. Using community-engaged research approaches to explore how queer and trans Asian American social movements create life-affirming practices and institutions

2. Advancing the conceptualization and application of queer and feminist of color social theories (e.g., queer and trans of color critique theories, critical refugee studies, critical race theory) to mixed methods public health research

3. Examining the effects of intersectional oppression on the mental health and well-being of minoritized populations

Publications

† denotes equal contribution

Peer-Reviewed

  1. Cross, R.I., Huỳnh, J., Bradford, N.J., Butler, B. 2023. Racialized Housing Discrimination and Population Health: A Systematic Review. Journal of Urban Health. doi: 10.1007/s11524-023-00725-y.
  2. Huỳnh, J.†, Huỳnh, V.†, lê, m.†, Sy, S.† (2023). Toward a Politics of Care: Southeast Asian Refugee Organizing, Kinship, Care, and Reunion. Health Promotion Practice. doi.org/10.1177/15248399231164411 
    (Open-access)
  3. Huynh, J.†, Chien, J.†, Nguyen, A.T., Honda, D., Cho, E., Xiong, M., Doan, T., Ngo, T.D. (2023). The mental health of young Asian Americans amid the rise of anti-Asian racism. Frontiers in Public Health. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.958517 (Open-access)
  4. Huynh, J. (2023). “Family Is the Beginning but Not the End”: Intergenerational LGBTQ Chosen Family, Social Support, and Health in a Vietnamese American Community Organization. Journal of Homosexuality, 1-23. doi:10.1080/00918369.2021.2018879
  5. Amani, B., Cabral, A., Sharif, M.Z., Huynh, J., Skrine-Jeffers, K., Baptista, S., McAndrew, B., Bradford, N.J., de la Rocha, P., Ford, C.L. (2022). Integrated Methods for Applying CRT to Qualitative COVID Equity Research. Ethnicity & Disease, 32(3), 243-256.doi:10.18865/ed.32.3.243 (Open-access)
  6. Thomas Tobin, C.S., Huynh, J., Farmer, H.R., Cross, R.I., Barve, A., Robinson, M., Perez Leslie, E., Thorpe, R. (2022). Perceived Neighborhood Racial Composition and Depressive Symptoms among Black Americans across Adulthood: Evaluating the Role of Psychosocial Risks and Resources. Journal of Aging and Health. doi: 10.1177/08982643221100789
  7. Nham, K & Huỳnh, J. (2020). Contagious Heathens: Exploring Racialization of COVID-19 and Asians through Stop AAPI Hate Incident Reports. AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community, 17(1 & 2). [click here for the free PDF]

Book Reviews

  1. Huynh, J. 2022. Brownness is Here, Queerness is not yet (T)Here: Review of The Sense of Brown. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 28(4): 644-646. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9991411
  2. Huỳnh, J. (2020). Review of Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire by Cynthia Wu. QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, 7(3): 219-222. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/qed.7.3.0219
  3. Huynh, J. (2020). Media Review: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis Using Dedoose: A Practical Approach for Research Across the Social Sciences. Journal of Mixed Methods Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1558689820977627