Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

• Name: Nhan D. Nguyen
• Email: nhannguyenduc@outlook.com

Education

• (USA)
  Ph.D. in Sociology
  August 2025
  Baylor University, USA
• (USA)
  Master in Sociology – GPA: 4.0/4.0
  May 2023 – 2025
  The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
• (Taiwan)
  Ph.D. in Statistics and Psychometrics
  2019 – 2023
  National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
• (Vietnam)
  Master of Arts in Psychology
  2014 – 2016
  Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Vietnam
• (Vietnam)
  Bachelor of Arts in Education and Psychology
  2010 – 2014
  Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Vietnam

Presentations/Posters

• Nguyen, N.D., Garcia, G. (2025). How Religious Struggles May Be Linked to Loneliness via Social Support: Testing the Moderating Effect of Race/Ethnicity [Poster section]. The ICAA 2025 Emerging Scholar, Miami, Florida on December 4-5, 2025.
• Nguyen, N.D., et al. (2025). The Buffering Effect of Religion on the Relationship between Perceived Stress and Depressive Symptoms in the Philippines [Paper Section], 2025 Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.
• Nguyen, N.D., Garcia, G. (2025). How Religious Struggles May Be Linked to Loneliness via Social Support: Testing the Moderating Effect of Race/Ethnicity [Poster section]. The Sociology and Demography Colloquium at UTSA.
• Nguyen, N.D., Lin, Z. (2025). Social Isolation and Subjective Well-Being among Older Adults: An Examination by Race/Ethnicity and Gender [Poster section]. Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW) Symposium Poster Presentation at UTSA.
• Nguyen, N.D., Lin, Z. (2025). Social Isolation and Subjective Well-Being among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Examination by Race/Ethnicity and Gender [Poster section]. TEXPOP 2025 at UT at Austin.
• Nguyen, N.D., & Lin, Z. (2025). Social Isolation and Subjective Well-Being among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Examination by Race/Ethnicity and Gender [Paper Section], 2025 PAA Conference, WA D.C.
• Nguyen, N.D., & Lin, Z. (2024). Social Isolation and Subjective Well-Being among Older Adults: An Examination by Race/Ethnicity and Gender [Poster Section], 2024 GSA Conference, Seattle, WA.
• Nguyen, N.D., & Lin, Z. (2024). Social Isolation and Subjective Well-Being among Older Adults: An Examination by Race/Ethnicity and Gender [Paper Section], 2024 IAPHS Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.
• Nguyen, N.D., Ellison, C., & Hill, T. (2024). Religion and Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic [Paper Section], 2024 ASR Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• Nguyen, N.D., (2024). The Relationship Between Social Isolation and Subjective Well-Being: Testing the Moderating Effects of Gender and Race/Ethnicity [Poster Section], 2024 International Conference on Aging in the Americas, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
• Nguyen, D. N., Cheng, W., & Hieu, M. T. (2022). The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem in the Passive Social Network Use and Hedonic Well-Being Link [Paper Section], 2022 WERA―World Education Research Association―Focal Meeting, San Diego, California, USA.

Awards/Honors

• Recipient, 2025 TAAHP Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students (Awarded by Texas Affiliation of Affordable Housing Providers), USA (2025-2026)
• Recipient, 2025 1st Place in the the College for Health, Community and Policy-Graduate Research Paper Competition (Awarded by Associate Dean for Graduate Student Success at the University of Texas at San Antonio), San Antonio, USA (2025).
• Recipient, 2024 ESPO-Carol Schutz Travel Award lottery, Awarded by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), USA (2024).
• Recipient, 2024 ESPO Poster Award, Awarded by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), USA (2024).
• Recipient, 2024 Sherry A. and Emily R. Goeke Endowed Memorial Fellowship (Awarded by the University of Texas at San Antonio Sociology Department’s Master’s Program), USA (2024-2025).
• Recipient, 2024 The Leon and Bella Jacobs Endowed Fellowship in Sociology (Awarded by the University of Texas at San Antonio Sociology Department’s Master’s Program), USA (2024-2025).
• Recipient, 2024 TAAHP Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students (Awarded by Texas Affiliation of Affordable Housing Providers), USA (2024-2025).
• Recipient, 2024 Scholarship for 5-day Duke University Spirituality and Health Research Workshop 2024 (Awarded by Duke University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry), North Carolina, USA (Summer 2024).
• Recipient, 2024 First Place for the Graduate Master Levels Student Research Paper Category, the Department of Sociology & Demography’s Annual Spring Research Colloquium (Awarded by Department Chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio), San Antonio, USA (2024).
• Recipient, 2023-2024 Runner Up for Most Outstanding Graduate Student for the College for Health, Community and Policy (Awarded by Associate Dean for Graduate Student Success at the University of Texas at San Antonio), San Antonio, USA (2024).
• Recipient, 2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (Awarded by President of the National Sun Yat-sen University), Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2023).
• Recipient, 2023 Research Excellence Award (Awarded by President of the National Sun Yat-sen University), Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2023).
• Recipient, Full Scholarship (i.e., Tuition Waiver, Elite Scholarship) (Awarded by President of the National Sun Yat-sen University), Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2020-2023).
• Recipient, University Outstanding Graduates (Awarded by President of the University of Education Ho Chi Minh City), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2014).
• Second and Third Prize, Pedagogical Practice Contest in Hanoi, Vietnam (2014).

Professional Service

• Reviewer, Reviewing the manuscript titled “The impact of WeChat usage on the mental health of middle-aged and older adults—a moderated mediation effect model” for Information, Communication & Society (2025).
• Administrative assistant, Assisting with activities, oversee the program, and contact for undergraduates in UTSA's Bridge program in Quantitative Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences (Summer 2025).
• Reviewer, Reviewing the manuscript titled “The Influence of Gratitude on Coping Strategies: Mediation Effect Testing from Longitudinal Data” for International Journal of Mental Health Promotion (2024).
• Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), Analyzing the data, drafting manuscripts, attending and presenting conferences (Funded from UTSA-Department of Sociology-College for Health, Community and Policy) (2024-2025).
• Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), Analyzing the data, drafting manuscripts, attending and presenting conferences (Funded from UTSA-Department of Sociology-College for Health, Community and Policy) (2023-2024).
• Reviewer, Reviewing the manuscript titled “Interaction effects of heightened awareness, moral reasoning, and sense of connectedness on prosocial behaviour: A multi-arm mindfulness-based study in China” for Journal of Religion and Health (2024).
• Administrative assistant, Assisting with activities, overseeing the program, and serving as a contact for undergraduates in UTSA’s Bridge program in Quantitative Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences (Summer 2024).
• Research mentor, Guiding and assisting student group in publishing scientific research: “Passive Social Network Usage and Life Satisfaction among Vietnamese University Students: A Moderated Mediation Model of Self-Esteem and Gender” (2024).
• Reviewer, Reviewing the manuscript titled “Multidimensional Intergenerational Relationship and Social Participation among Late-Life Migrants in China: The role of depressive symptom” for Health & Social Care in the Community (2023).
• Research mentor, Guiding and assisting student group in publishing scientific research: “Passive Social Network Usage and Hedonic Well-Being among Vietnamese University Students: A Moderated Mediation Model Involving Self-Esteem and Sense of Self” (2023).
• Research mentor, Guiding and assisting student group in conducting scientific research: “The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem in the Relationship between Passive Social Network Usage and Subjective Well-Being among High School Students in Vietnam” (2021-2022).
• Reviewer, Reviewing papers in the Workshop named: “Start-Up of Non-Pedagogical Students” organized by Ho Chi Minh City University of Education (2018).
• Research mentor, Guiding and assisting one student in completing a Bachelor Thesis: “Ho Chi Minh City University of Education Students’ Subjective Well-being” (2018-2019).

Teaching Experience

• Courses taught at University of Education (Ho Chi Minh City):
  • Psychology of Creativity (Fall 2019)
  • Soft Skills (Summer 2018)
  • General Psychology (Fall 2018)
  • Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Fall 2018)
• Viet Nam Aviation Institute (Ho Chi Minh City):
  • General Psychology (Spring 2019)
• Ton Duc Thang University (Ho Chi Minh City):
  • Soft Skills (Spring 2018)
• Binh Duong University (Binh Duong Province):
  • General Psychology (Summer 2018)
• Dong Nai Technology University (Dong Nai Province):
  • Soft Skills (Summer 2017)
• Bach Viet College (Ho Chi Minh City):
  • Child Psychology (Spring 2015, 2016, 2017)

Projects

• Research Assistant, assisting Dr. Wen Cheng with research projects on Social Networking behaviors and mental health among three countries (i.e., Taiwan, Indonesia, and Vietnam). Specific responsibilities included building and creating questionnaires in English, translating and adapting scales for Vietnamese participants, coding study variables, inputting data into SPSS/R software, analyzing the data, and writing papers (International Graduate Program of Education and Human Development, National Sun Yat-sen University―2020-2023).
• Research Assistant, assisting Dr. Wen Cheng with research projects on Social Network Usage, Body Image Concerns, and Depression with Physical Appearance Comparison among Taiwanese and Vietnamese High School/College students. Responsibilities included building and creating questionnaires in English, translating and adapting scales for Vietnamese participants, coding study variables, inputting data into SPSS/AMOS software, analyzing the data, and writing papers (Dissertation, National Sun Yat-sen University―2021-2023).
• Programming Languages/Statistical Software: R, Stata, SPSS, PROCESS MARCO, SmartPLS, AMOS