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# Current members | DTKP | **Dr. Thi Kim Phung Dang**  ***Head of GIST*** Thi Kim Phung Dang is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, and the Head of the Global Inquiries and Social Theory Research Group (GIST), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. She was a fellow of Newton Mobility Grant (British Academy) with the project: Between Dark Heritages and Ecotourism: Post\- colonial Ecologies in Vietnam. She is teaching the BSc courses *Environment and Society, Environment and Development,* and *Project Design and Evaluation*. She also teaches the MSc courses *Advanced qualitative analysis* and *Writing a scientific paper in the social sciences*. She holds a MSc degree in Management of Biological Diversity from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and MSc and PhD degrees in Policy and Management from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She used to serve as a forestry expert at the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Tay Ninh province, Vietnam, and then as the Vice\-Director of the National Park *Lo Go Xa Mat*, responsible for ecotourism and environmental education. Her current research themes include governance, discourses, and the relationship between society and environment, and society and development. Her recent interest is the social impacts of tourism in Vietnam. **\>\> Her publications:** [Here](/publications-of-dr-thi-kim-phung-dang) |
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|  | **Dr. John Hutnyk**  ***Researcher*** John Hutnyk is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has been Visiting Professor at Jadavpur University, India; National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Nagoya City University Japan; RMIT University in Australia; Mimar Sinan University in Turkey; Heidelberg University; Zeppelin University and Hamburg University, Germany. For fourteen years he was at Goldsmiths University of London and from 2008 as Professor of Cultural Studies. Hutnyk's most recent books are: Pantomime Terror: Music and Politic (Zero books 2014\); and Global South Asia on Screen (Bloomsbury 2018; and in India with Aakar Books 2019\). **\>\> His publications:** [Here](/publications-of-dr-john-hutnyk) |
| Michellangelo-Paganopoulos | **Dr. Michelangelo Paganopoulos**  ***Researcher*** Michelangelo Paganopoulos has a long\-standing interest in interdisciplinary research in the Arts and Humanities. He is a graduate of the Film \& TV Department of Glasgow University, followed by a doctorate in social anthropology taken at Goldsmiths, University of London. As part of his research, he conducted fieldwork in two rival monasteries of Mount Athos, using both qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis ("Land of the Virgin Mary: An Ethnography of Monastic Life on Mount Athos", CCA, research.gold.ac.uk/6537/). Michelangelo has lectured in the courses of Anthropological Methods (Qualitative and Quantitative Research), Anthropology of Religion, Symbols \& Symbolic Systems, General Principles of Anthropology, Introduction to Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, Dept. of Anthropology. In addition to this, he has contributed to the curriculum and lectured on the course of Introduction to Film Studies in the Dept. of Education, Goldsmiths. As part of his involvement with professional anthropology, Michelangelo accepted the voluntary role of Membership Officer of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth for the brief period between 2014 to 2016\. Michelangelo participated in a number of international conferences (RAI, ASA, EastBordNet, LSE European Institute) and has headed two ASA panels (ASA12 Jawaharlal Nehru University \& ASA15 in Exeter University). He recently edited the volume *In\-Between Fiction and Non\-Fiction: Reflections on the Poetics of Ethnography in Literature and Film* (Cambridge Scholars, 01 May 2018, ISBN 1527508331, 9781527508330\). This collection of essays focuses on the interactive relations between fictional and non\-fictional types of storytelling and their pragmatic impact on the formation of a world consciousness. His journal publications in anthropology \& cultural studies include papers on the formation of a Kantian world society and the relationship between art, technology, and social life. **\>\> His publications:** [Here](/publications-of-dr-michellangelo-paganopoulos) | 
Current members | Global Inquiries and Social Theory Research Group Skip to main content Global Inquiries and Social Theory Research Group Language (Ngôn ngữ) Search Main navigation Home  Introduction  Research Statement  Research topics Members Current members  Former members  Collaborators Products  Conferences  Contact Current members Dr. Thi Kim Phung Dang  Head of GIST  Thi Kim Phung Dang is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, and the Head of the Global Inquiries and Social Theory Research Group (GIST), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam.  She was a fellow of Newton Mobility Grant (British Academy) with the project: Between Dark Heritages and Ecotourism: Post- colonial Ecologies in Vietnam. She is teaching the BSc courses Environment and Society, Environment and Development, and Project Design and Evaluation .  She also teaches the MSc courses Advanced qualitative analysis and Writing a scientific paper in the social sciences .  She holds a MSc degree in Management of Biological Diversity from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and MSc and PhD degrees in Policy and Management from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.  She used to serve as a forestry expert at the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Tay Ninh province, Vietnam, and then as the Vice-Director of the National Park Lo Go Xa Mat , responsible for ecotourism and environmental education.  Her current research themes include governance, discourses, and the relationship between society and environment, and society and development. Her recent interest is the social impacts of tourism in Vietnam.  >> Her publications:  Here Dr. John Hutnyk  Researcher  John Hutnyk is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.  He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has been Visiting Professor at Jadavpur University, India; National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Nagoya City University Japan; RMIT University in Australia; Mimar Sinan University in Turkey; Heidelberg University; Zeppelin University and Hamburg University, Germany.  For fourteen years he was at Goldsmiths University of London and from 2008 as Professor of Cultural Studies.  Hutnyk's most recent books are: Pantomime Terror: Music and Politic (Zero books 2014); and Global South Asia on Screen (Bloomsbury 2018; and in India with Aakar Books 2019).  >> His publications:  Here Dr. Michelangelo Paganopoulos  Researcher  Michelangelo Paganopoulos has a long-standing interest in interdisciplinary research in the Arts and Humanities. He is a graduate of the Film & TV Department of Glasgow University, followed by a doctorate in social anthropology taken at Goldsmiths, University of London.  As part of his research, he conducted fieldwork in two rival monasteries of Mount Athos, using both qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis ("Land of the Virgin Mary: An Ethnography of Monastic Life on Mount Athos", CCA, research.gold.ac.uk/6537/). Michelangelo has lectured in the courses of Anthropological Methods (Qualitative and Quantitative Research), Anthropology of Religion, Symbols & Symbolic Systems, General Principles of Anthropology, Introduction to Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, Dept. of Anthropology. In addition to this, he has contributed to the curriculum and lectured on the course of Introduction to Film Studies in the Dept. of Education, Goldsmiths.  As part of his involvement with professional anthropology, Michelangelo accepted the voluntary role of Membership Officer of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth for the brief period between 2014 to 2016. Michelangelo participated in a number of international conferences (RAI, ASA, EastBordNet, LSE European Institute) and has headed two ASA panels (ASA12 Jawaharlal Nehru University & ASA15 in Exeter University).  He recently edited the volume In-Between Fiction and Non-Fiction: Reflections on the Poetics of Ethnography in Literature and Film (Cambridge Scholars, 01 May 2018, ISBN 1527508331, 9781527508330). This collection of essays focuses on the interactive relations between fictional and non-fictional types of storytelling and their pragmatic impact on the formation of a world consciousness.  His journal publications in anthropology & cultural studies include papers on the formation of a Kantian world society and the relationship between art, technology, and social life.  >> His publications:  Here