The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Nguyen, who earned her PhD from Yale and previously taught at the University of Kentucky, specializes in the study of the United States in the world, with spatial focus on Southeast Asia and … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Speaks at November Events on Shared and Divided Memories in the Global Age and on Turkey in the World
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, spoke at the symposium "The Location of Europe: Shared and Divided Memories in the Global Age," which was held from November 28 through November 30, 2016 at the Palace Herrenhausen in Hanover, Germany, and convened by the European University Viadrina. The … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes Victor Louzon, 2016-18 INTERACT Postdoctoral Scholar
Victor Louzon is the 2016-2018 International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching (INTERACT) Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Dr. Louzon holds his PhD from Sciences Po. He received his undergraduate training at SciencesPo, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales(Paris), and the University of British Columbia … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes Simon Toner, the 2016-17 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in Southeast Asian Studies
Simon Toner is the 2016-2017 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in Southeast Asian Studies at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is a historian of the United States and the World, focusing particularly on the history of the American War in Vietnam and U.S. development projects in Cold War East and Southeast Asia. Dr. Toner is currently completing a book manuscript, based … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes Peter E. Hamilton, the 2016-18 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in the Making of the Modern Pacific World
Peter E. Hamilton is the 2016-2018 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in the Making of the Modern Pacific World at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He received his doctorate in History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Dr. Hamilton is a historian of China and the World and the modern Pacific. His research explores transpacific networks of migration and … [Read more...]
