Scientific research

 The Faculty's faculty has three outstanding strengths: academics, applications, and internationalization, which are comprehensively affirmed in research activities and results, training, and international cooperation.
With diverse expertise, good foreign language skills, extensive international and Vietnamese practical experience, the Faculty's teaching staff is always a pioneer in researching many scientific, interdisciplinary and practical issues.
The staff in the Department of Research focuses on important specialized directions of Anthropology:

• History of Anthropology
• Ethnic anthropology, ethnic cultural issues, ethnic relations and ethnic policy
• Political Anthropology
• Urban Anthropology
• Gender Anthropology
• Developmental Anthropology
• Economic Anthropology
• Environmental Anthropology
• Visual Anthropology
• Anthropology of Art
• Linguistic and writing anthropology
• Anthropology of cultural heritage and cultural preservation...

• Research on issues of Theory and Methodology of Religious Research:
• Methods of religious research.
• Origin, nature and function of religion
• Religious forms in history, the structure of religion
• Approaches to Religious Studies
• Research on world religions and Vietnam:
• History and development of world religions
• The process of introduction and development of world religions in Vietnam
• Doctrines, scriptures, and organizations of world religions
• History and process of formation and development of endogenous religion in Vietnam
• Doctrines and organizations of indigenous religions in Vietnam.
• Learn about the types of indigenous beliefs in Vietnam: ancestor worship, Mother Goddess worship, village tutelary god worship, and god worship.
• The transformation of some types of beliefs in Vietnam today: some issues raised.
• Religion, beliefs and social life

• The relationship of religion with other areas of social life: politics, culture, art, etc.
• Religious ethics and the influence of religious ethics on Vietnamese social ethics today
• Religious resources and development of religious resources in Vietnam
• Religious policy and management of religious activities in Vietnam.
• Application of religion in social life
• Beliefs and spiritual cultural life of Vietnamese people
  - Religious festivals

• The faculty of the Faculty has chaired and participated in many national and Hanoi National University research projects on issues of ethnicity, land, livelihood, migration, conservation and development in Vietnam and in the region.
  Through the creation and nurturing of a professional, dynamic, open and creative academic environment, many valuable scientific works have been published by the Faculty's lecturers domestically and internationally. The international publication rate of the Faculty of Anthropology and Religious Studies in recent years has always accounted for an important part of the total number of international publications of the University. In recent years alone, a series of reference books and monographs in Vietnamese and English have been published by the Faculty. The results of scientific research are used by the Faculty's lecturers to serve the training of undergraduate and postgraduate students, to advise state agencies and international organizations to solve many problems arising from social practices in many areas across the country, especially in ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, and areas where religions and beliefs intersect.
• Nguyen Truong Giang, Ethnic landscape changes in Ca Mau peninsula under the impact of climate change and salinity (Co-editor), Social Sciences Publishing House, 2024, 300 pages
• Nguyen Truong Giang, Some basic and urgent issues on ethnic minorities in China and Southeast Asia (jointly written), National University Publishing House, 2019, 300 pages.
• Nguyen Truong Giang, Terraced Fields in Vietnam - Conservation and Sustainable Development (monograph), National Political Publishing House, Hanoi, 2015, 335 pp. (Monographs: Terraced Fields in Vietnam, Conservation and Sustainable Development. National Political Publishing House, Hanoi, 2015, 335 pp. ISBN: 978-604-57-1364-8).
• Nguyen Truong Giang, Keeping tradition, adding new as property for next generation (ethnographic and anthropological monograph on Ta oi, A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue), Hanoi National University Publishing House, 2016, 205p, Hanoi National University Publishing House, ISBN: 978-604-62-5386-0).
• Nguyen Truong Giang, Cultural Diversity - Lessons from Stories (reference book, co-authored), The Gioi Publishing House, 2016, 60 pages.
• Many authors (2014), Some issues on history and theory of anthropology, Tri Thuc Publishing House.
• Dinh Hong Hai (2014), Symbolic research: Some theoretical approaches, The Gioi Publishing House.
• Nguyen Van Suu (2014), Industrialization, urbanization and livelihood transformation in Hanoi's suburbs, Tri Thuc Publishing House.
• Various authors (2015), Development Anthropology: History, Theory and Practical Tools, Tri Thuc Publishing House.
• Pham Quang Minh, Nguyen Van Suu, Ien Ang, Gay Hawkins (2016), Globalization and urban transformation in contemporary Vietnam, Tri Thuc Publishing House.
• Pham Quang Minh, Nguyen Van Suu, Ien Ang, Gay Hawkins (2016), Globalization, Modernity and Urban Change in Asian Cities. Knowledge Publishing House.
• Nguyen Van Suu, Nguyen Van Huy, Lam Ba Nam, Vuong Xuan Tinh (2016), Anthropology in Vietnam: Some historical, research and training issues, Tri Thuc Publishing House.
• Vu Van Chung, (2021) “Baha'i religion in community education in Vietnam”, Review of international geographical education
• Lam Minh Chau (2017), Innovation, market economy and modernization, Hanoi Publishing House.
• Lam Minh Chau (2021) “Freedom under Paramountcy: Multifunctional Traders as Active Moral Agents in Late-socialist Vietnam”, Anthropological Quarterly, 94(3), 473-504.
• Trinh Thi Lan (2017) Rituals of the Ha Nhi people in Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province today (monograph), Fine Arts Publishing House, Hanoi.
• Hong Hai Dinh, Liam C. Kelley (2021) “Competing Imagined Ancestries: The Lac Viet, the Vietnamese, and the Zhuang” in the book Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community, Springer.
• Tran Thi Kim Oanh, "Buddhism in Hoa Binh province with activities to care for the material and spiritual life of ethnic minorities" in Buddhist activities of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in Hoa Binh province in the context of international integration, Social Sciences Publishing House, 2021, ISBN: 978-604-308-505-1. Monograph
• Tran Thi Kim Oanh, The worldly spirit of Vietnamese Buddhist women past and present, Social Sciences Publishing House, 2024, ISBN: 978-604-366-250-6. Monograph book chapter
• Nguyen Thu Huong (2022) “The case of Da Thao Phuong and Sexual Violence in Vietnam over the Past Two Decades”, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 17 (4) DOI:10.1525/vs.2022.17.4.58
• Nguyen Van Suu (2022) “Land in Contemporary Vietnam”, printed in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam, ISBN 9781138792258, Routledge.
• Nguyen Vu Hoang (2023) “Trapped within the White Frame: Vietnamese Americans in Post-Katrina New Orleans”, printed in Linda Ho Peche, Alex-Thai Vo and Tuong Vu (Eds.) Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies: History, Community, and Memory, Temple University Press, pp.178-198.