Writing a History of Vietnam from Earliest Times

Ben Kiernan, Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Yale University

Ben Kiernan obtained his Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia, in 1983. He was founding Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program (1994-99) and Convenor of the Yale East Timor Project (2000-02). Kiernan's edited collection Conflict and Change in Cambodia won the Critical Asian Studies Prize for 2002, and was republished as a book in 2006. He is most recently the author of Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (2007), Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor (2007), and has published numerous articles on Southeast Asia and the history of genocide. He is a member of the editorial boards of Critical Asian Studies, Human Rights Review, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung, and the Journal of Genocide Research.

His undergraduate courses include Southeast Asia from Earliest Times to 1900, Southeast Asia since 1900, Vietnamese History from Earliest Times, The Vietnam War, Environmental History of Southeast Asia, and graduate seminars on the Vietnam War and on various aspects of the history of genocide.

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