Christoph Giebel

Assistant Professor of History & International Studies

Office: 320 Thomson

Phone: (206) 685-0668

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Ph.D. Southeast Asian History, 1996 Dissertation: "Ton Duc Thang and the Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism" (co-won 1996 Cornell Southeast Asia Program Lauriston Sharp Prize)
- M.A. Southeast Asian History, 1991
- M.A. Asian Studies: Southeast Asia, 1989
University of Hamburg, Germany, 1984 - 1988
- Studies in Vietnamistics, Sinology, and History
National University Ha Noi, Viet Nam, 1986 - 1987
First West German student in the S.R. of Viet Nam
Fu Jen-University, Taibei, Taiwan, 1983 - 1984
Eberhard Karls-University, TŸbingen, Germany, 1981 - 1983

Striking Images: Ba Son 1925 - A Case Study of the History and Historiography of Vietnamese Labor, Ithaca, NY : Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, forthcoming.
"Prescription and Teleology in Vietnamese Post-Independence Historiography: Some Comments from American Academe," in: [Southeast Asian Historiography Since 1945], Abu Talib Ahmad, Tan Liok Ee (eds.), in print.
"Museum-Shrine: Revolution and Its Tutelary Spirit in the Village of My Hoa Hung", in: The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam, Hue-Tam Ho Tai (ed.), Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, in print.
"Telling Life: An Approach to the Official Biography of Ton Duc Thang", in: Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts, Keith W. Taylor, John K. Whitmore (eds.), Ithaca, NY : Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications (Studies on Southeast Asia No. 19), 1995, 246-271.

"25 Years After the End of the War in Viet Nam: Reflections on Legacies and Memories," UW, 2000
"Vietnamese Studies in America and the 'Viet Nam/American War': Some Comments on an Ambivalent Relationship," conference on "Moving Beyond the War: New Directions in the Study of Viet Nam," University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2000
"The Red Flag in the Black Sea: Retracing an Imagined Ancestry of Vietnamese Communism," Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
Discussant, panel on "Apprehensions of Modernity in Colonial Vietnam," Association for Asian Studies annual conference, San Diego, CA, 2000
"Prescription and Teleology in Vietnamese Post-Independence Historiography: Some Comments from American Academe," conference on "Southeast Asian Historiography Since 1945," Universiti Sains Malaysia, Georgetown, Penang, 1999
"On the 'Spirit of Service' - a hypothesis about Confucianism in (post-) revolutionary Viet Nam," ACLS Conference "Rethinking Confucianism in Asia," Univ. of California, Los Angeles, (workshop #2: "Reinventions of Confucianism in the 20th Century"), 1998

Viet Nam: Ha Noi: research on Vietnamese labor, post-revolutionary historiography, et al., 1999+2000
"Foundations of U.S.-Vietnam Relations: The Missed Opportunity of 1945", oral history roundtable/ workshop, organized by Ford Foundation/U.S.-Indochina Reconciliation Project, New York, 1997
France: Navy archives, Toulon and Brest, 1993
Viet Nam: Ha Noi: National Archives #1, National Library, Museum of the Revolution, Ho Chi Minh Museum; Sai Gon: National Archives #2, Museum of the Revolution, Ton Duc Thang Museum; Long Xuyen: Museum of An Giang Province, Ton Duc Thang Museum; various interviews, 1992
France: Sorbonne University, Paris; Navy archives, Vincennes; Colonial archives, 1992

U.S. Dept. of Education, Grant for Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute (VASI) 1999-2001, on behalf of the GUAVA consortium: co-P.I., University of Washington
AAC&U (Assoc. of American Colleges & Universities), Faculty and Curriculum Development Seminar on Japan: main author, Mississippi State University, 1998
Japan Foundation, Library Support Program award for 1997-98: main author, Mississippi State University Library
1996 Lauriston Sharp Prize for "most outstanding contribution to Southeast Asian scholarship," for dissertation on Vietnamese history, Cornell Southeast Asia Program, co-recipient

Organizer, "quarter abroad"-program in Viet Nam, University of Washington CHID program, ongoing
Consultant, Political Asylum Research and Documentation Service (PARDS), Princeton, NJ, since 1999
Co-Administrator and Field Director (1999+2000), Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute (VASI), Ha Noi, Viet Nam, for the Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese Abroad (GUAVA), since 1998
Member, Executive Committee, Viet Nam Studies Group, Association of Asian Studies (AAS), since 1998