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  4. Van Nguyen-Marshall

Van Nguyen-Marshall

Professor
M.A. (British Columbia); Ph.D. (British Columbia)
(705) 748-1011 x 7169
vannguyenmarshall@trentu.ca

Research Interests:

Modern Vietnamese History, focusing on associational life, civil society, and the Vietnam War.

Select Publications: 

  • Between War and the State: Vietnamese Voluntary Association in South Vietnam (1954-1975). Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asian Program Publication, 2023. 

  • “Voluntarism and Social Activism in Wartime South Vietnam.” In Handbook on the History of Vietnamese Americans, edited by Linda Ho Peche, Alex Thai Vo and Tuong Vu, eds, 40-56. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2023.

  • “Appeasing the spirits along the ‘Highway of Horror’: Civic Life in Wartime South Vietnam,” War and Society 37, no. 3 (May 2018): 206-222.

  • “Student Activism in Time of War Youth in the Republic of Vietnam, 1960s–1970s,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 10, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 43-81.

  • “Human Rights in Wartime Vietnam: Unique Perspectives from Duong Thu Huong’s Novel Without a Name.” In Human Rights and the Arts: Essays on Global Asia, edited by Lily Cho and Susan Henders, 55-69. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.

  • The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam.  Edited by Van Nguyen-Marshall, Lisa Drummond and Daniele Belanger.  The Asian Research Institute (National University of Singapore) in cooperation with Springer Publishing, 2012.

  • “The Associational Life of the Vietnamese Middle Class in Saigon (1950s-1970s).” In The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam, edited by Van Nguyen-Marshall, Lisa Drummond, and Daniele Belanger, 59-75. Singapore: The Asian Research Institute (National University of Singapore) and Springer Publishing, 2012.

  • In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam.  New York: Peter Lang, 2008.

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