Welcome!
My name is Andrew Nova Le (he/him/his). I am a Assistant Professor of Sociology in the 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 are in international migration, race & ethnicity, political & global sociology, social theory, and qualitative research methods in the Asia and Asian American context. My research has been published in various venues including Social Problems, Journal of Peasant Studies, Sociological Forum, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. My research is global with sites in Vietnam, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Seattle, and Los Angeles.
I pride myself on 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.
In what seems like a lifetime ago, I was an all-academic football player at St. Lawrence University. Go Saints!
“What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening systematically to how they understand what they are doing and how they explain themselves.”
— James C. Scott