Amira Noeuv

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Amira Noeuv

Amira Noeuv is a doctoral student in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her research focuses on transgenerational trauma healing and critical refugee studies.

Background

Amira Noeuv was born in San Diego in 1989 to survivors of the Cambodian genocide. She identifies as second-generation Cambodian American.

Education

Amira Noeuv earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 2012. She earned her master's degree in Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs from the School of International Service in 2017. During her tenure at American University, she conducted research for and co-authored a study on cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis on the water-energy-food nexus for the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, San Diego where she studies under Yến Lê Espiritu and Andrew Jolivétte.

Career

Amira Noeuv was an event coordinator at the Qualcomm Institute CALIT2 at UCSD for several years before moving to Washington, D.C. During her master's degree, she worked as a research assistant at the United States Institute of Peace and was a fellow with the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area. After graduating from American University, she worked as a program associate for the Rule of Law Initiative at the American Bar Association in Washington, D.C. Since 2020, Noeuv has held various assignments as a teaching and research assistant with the Ethnic Studies Department at UCSD. As a research assistant, she managed activities led by Kumeyaay and Somalian youths and community members to inform ideas on mental health and wellness for the Intergenerational Health and Healing project. She currently serves as a teaching assistant at the Ethnic Studies Department at UCSD and contributes to the development of a Cambodian Genocide Model Curriculum for the Orange County Department of Education.

Research

Amira Noeuv's research focuses on transgenerational trauma and healing in the Cambodian-American community. Specifically, she studies how traumatic experiences connected to the Cambodian genocide are passed down from one generation to the next and how the community creates ways to heal itself. Her research builds on ethnographic, auto-ethnographic, and community-based research methodologies. She contributed to the Sharing Comfort & Care Project led by faculty and staff at the University of California, Irvine and has been featured as a guest speaker on topics such as mental health and trauma healing on the 2 Khmerican Sisters and Mental Breakthrough podcasts.

Community Leadership

As part of and in addition to her research, Noeuv is heavily engaged with the Cambodian American community. She was the project manager and co-founder of the Experiences of the Second Generation–A Cambodian American Conversation: A Dialogue on the Impact of the Cambodian Genocide and Diaspora on Subsequent Generation, a project created under the auspices of the Trauma Healing and Community Resilience Program for the Institute of World Affairs to discuss trauma healing and social identity empowerment in the Cambodian American communities in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Following the conclusion of this program in 2019, Noeuv has helped the participants to stay in contact and continue the dialogue through the informal Khmer Discussion Group. As a project member with the Generating and Reclaiming our Wisdoms (GROW) initiative, Noeuv works to document untold stories of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and student activism at UCSD, focusing specifically on the history of the UCSD Cambodian American Student Association (CSA). Noeuv is also a principal member of the UCSD Parent and Caregiver Student Organization and has served as a community assistant with USCD Graduate and Family Housing since 2021.

Bibliography

• Samssa Ali et al., “Finding Common Ground Amid Conflict: An Evaluation of the Al’Auja-Arava Valley Initiative – A Cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus” (Washington, D.C.: American University School of International Service, 2016), https://www.slideshare.net/AmiraNoeuv/findingcommongroundamidconflict-66262571.
• Amira Noeuv, “Girl with the Sak Yon Tattoo,” Amerasia Journal 47, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 150–63, https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1976026.
• Amira Noeuv, “Sokhary,” in Sharing Comfort & Care: Stories of Migration, Health, and Foodways in Cambodian and Pacific Islander Diasporas, ed. Shiphrah Fepulea’i, Shine Kim, and Phuc Duy Nhu To, 2021, 72–85.

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