Kien Nghi Ha is a cultural and political scientist and postdoc at the University of Tübingen. He researches Asian German Studies, postcolonial criticism, racism and migration. His monograph Unclean and Mixed. Postcolonial Border Crossings through the Cultural History of Hybridity and Colonial 'Racial Bastards' was awarded the Augsburg Science Prize for Intercultural Studies in 2011. He edited the anthology Asian Germans Extended: Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond, which was reprinted in 2021.

As of August 2022