Rachel Tough
Member since 2024
I hope to use this platform to improve the profile of anthropology in public debates.
Bio
Rachel Anne Tough recently completed her Ph.D. in the School of Global Development at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK. Her doctoral thesis presents an ethnography of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam and draws on 18 months of fieldwork conducted in a working class community in Ho Chi Minh City between 2021 and 2023.
In collaboration with Vietnamese colleagues, Rachel is also leading research projects funded by the British Museum and the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) documenting endangered heritage in Vietnam. Her research has additionally been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the Postcolonial Studies Association, the Social History Society, Arts Council England, and a Cumberland Lodge Fellowship.
Before entering academia, she led a team of City Hall researchers supporting elected politicians to campaign for social and environmental justice for Londoners.
