Lan Anh Hoang is Associate Professor in Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne. She received her MA and PhD in Development Studies from the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, Singapore, before joining the University of Melbourne in January 2011. Lan was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore in 2013-2014.
Her research has been published in many prestigious journals such as Gender and Society, Gender, Place and Culture, Global Networks, Population, Space and Place, Geoforum, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Asian Studies Review, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is author of ‘Vietnamese migrants in Russia: mobility in times of uncertainty’ (Amsterdam University Press 2020) and co-editor of ‘Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances, and the Changing Family in Asia' (2015) and ‘Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia’ (2019).
Lan’s current project examines brokerage and migrant networks in the Vietnam-Australia migration corridor. She is Regional Editor (Mainland Southeast Asia) of Asian Studies Review, Thematic Editor (Migration) of Development in Practice, and Associate Editor of Springer's Global Vietnam book series. Lan co-edited the Palgrave Macmillan book series 'Anthropology, Change, and Development' from 2013 to 2021 and is currently sitting on the International Advisory Board of Feminist Theory. She was a development worker in Vietnam before entering academia.