B.S (Cornell); M.A. (Yale); Ph.D. (Cornell)
Tel: (65) 6516 3842
Office: AS1 05 - 30
My
teaching and my research focus on the countries
of mainland Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam,
Thailand, and Laos--being the three places I lived
in before moving to Singapore. I've been especially
interested in the topic of kings and monarchy, but
I am now spending more and more time thinking about
how these countries perceive and write their own
history as well. I have published a book on the
last Vietnamese ruler: The End of The Vietnamese
Monarchy (Yale Council on Southeast Asian Studies,
1993) and I have completed a manuscript on constitutional
monarchy in Thailand. My big long-term project is
to write a textbook history of Vietnam which will
enable readers (like NUS students, for example)
to learn as much as they want about my favorite
country without falling asleep over the pages. One
of my approaches to teaching is to emphasize the "story" in "history", and I
try to include as many good historical anecdotes
as possible in my lectures and my writing. As for
my life in Singapore, it is basically focused on
my students, my books, my church, and my cats.
TEACHING AREAS:
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Buddhism
in SE Asian History |
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Thailand |
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Indochina |
CURRENT RESEARCH:
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Colonial
Indochina |
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Vietnamese
historiography and ethnography |
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Thai
monarchy |
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Vietnamese
history textbook |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
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The
End of the Vietnamese Monarchy. New Haven:
Council on Southeast Asia Studes, Yale University,
1993. |
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"Re-assessing
the Nguyen Dynasty" in Crossroads: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian
Studies 15,1 (2001): 9-53. |
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The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization, 2003 |
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Contesting in Visions of the Lao Past: Lao Historiography at the Crossroads, 2003 |
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"...My teaching and my research focus
on the countries of mainland Southeast Asia...
As for my life in Singapore, it is basically
focused on my students, my books, my church,
and my cats... "
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