His research focuses on the integration of post-1965 immigrants and their children as well as its implications for American culture, politics and society. A scholar of immigration and urban inequality, his research and teaching are deeply intertwined with the diversity and vibrancy of New York City. His current book project, Amsterdam Avenue: Hyper-Gentrification and the Remaking of a Global City, examines the impact of neighborhood gentrification on businesses and residents in Manhattan’s West Side. He is the faculty organizer of the Race, Ethnicity and Migration Workshop, teaches the popular undergraduate seminar Immigrant New York and was a recipient of the 2017 GSAS Faculty Mentoring Award. Tran received his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Columbia community.