Greetings! I am an associate professor in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, where I specialize in early modern Vietnamese history. I also teach courses in Southeast Asian studies. I have written extensively about the Tây Sơn uprising in late 18th century Vietnam, but have also explored topics in 19th and early 20th century Vietnamese history.
I am currently at work on two academic projects. First, I am helping to edit a sourcebook of primary document translations for the volume Sources of Vietnamese Tradition. This will include several hundred documents relating to all periods of Vietnamese history. Second, I am working on a biography of Philiphê Bỉnh, a Vietnamese Jesuit priest who spent more than thirty years in Lisbon as an emissary of the northern Vietnamese Jesuit community in the first decades of the nineteenth century.
The images decorating this website are taken from family vacations to National Parks in the western United States - sites of refuge from the stresses of city and academic life.
Associate Professor
290 Royce Hall
Box 951540
Los Angeles, CA 90095
(310) 825-6363
Office Location: 248A Royce Hall
My other hats . . .
Chair, Southeast Asian Studies IDP
Director, Southeast Asian Languages in ALC
Book Reviews Editor, Journal of Vietnamese Studies
Courses (Fall 2008)
• Colonialism and Culture in SEA
(SEASIAN 170)
• East Asian Popular Culture
(GE25A)
Links that Matter:
Visit My Tây Sơn Website
Mount Lassen (August, 2007)
In Memoriam: Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of American soldiers killed by the hubris and arrogance of our President and the indifference and blind fear of the American people. Their blood is on the hands of all Americans.
