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...]
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...]
“Rights Gone Wrong on the City’s Edge: Evidence from Ho Chi Minh City”
Lecture "Rights Gone Wrong on the City's Edge: Evidence from Ho Chi Minh City" Erik Harms, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International & Area Studies, Yale University 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. Co-sponsored by the New York Southeast Asia Network, the Southeast Asian Student Initiative (SEASI), and … [Read more...]
Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Kathlene Baldanza (Cambridge University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Studies of Sino-Viet relations have traditionally focused on Chinese aggression and Vietnamese resistance, or have assumed out-of-date ideas about Sinicization and the tributary system. They have limited themselves to national … [Read more...]
Quantitating: Dennis Lien’s Experience in Vietnam
Read about Dennis Lien's experience interning at SNV Vietnam and the Vietnam Biogas Project! … [Read more...]
