Temple University professor Nguyễn Thị Điểu in Vietnam.
Associate Professor Nguyễn Thị Điểu during a 2019 visit to the Vietnamese province of Châu Đốc, near the Cambodian border.
Courtesy of Nguyễn Thị Điểu.

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