Christoph Giebel, associate professor of history and international studies, recently gave a talk on the Vietnamese Revolution as part of the History Department’s “Worlds Turned Upside Down: Five Revolutions that Shaped Our Times“ series.
[Watch the full version of the talk here]
Giebel says the Vietnamese Revolution accelerated the demise of Western colonial empires, foreshadowing decades of post-colonial interventionism around the world by consciously drawing on the American, French, and Russian Revolutions.
His research and teaching interests concern 20th century Viet Nam; comparative colonialism and French and U.S. imperialism in Southeast Asia; history, historiography, and memory; and the spatial representations of the wars in Viet Nam.
Associate Professor of International Studies and History Christoph Giebel