The Hau scandal, also known as the Hau gate scandal, refers to a controversy that emerged in 2019 involving a Vietnamese woman named Truong Thi Hau, who was a key figure in a high-profile case of alleged corruption and preferential treatment in Vietnam.

A renewed focus on centering Black feminism and Indigenous perspectives as foundational, rather than peripheral, to ethnographic theory.

The remains a watershed moment in modern social sciences, exposing a deep-seated crisis of governance, labor ethics, and systemic inequality within the discipline of anthropology. What began as a dispute over the management of a prestigious open-access journal quickly evolved into a global reckoning with the "white public space" of academia. The Catalyst: Governance and Workplace Allegations