Contact Information
Fields of Interest
Biography
Christoph Giebel is Associate Professor of International Studies and History. His research and teaching interests concern 20th c. Viet Nam; Comparative Colonialisms and (French and US) imperialism in (Southeast) Asia; history, historiography, and memory; and the spatial representations of the wars in Viet Nam.
Research
Research Advised
- Bui, Alvin Khiem. "Twice Exiled the Ethnic Chinese from Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of China (1955-Present)." PhD diss. University of Washington, 2024.
- Lin Hongxuan. "Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915 - 1959." PhD diss., University of Washington.
- Mok, Mei Feng. Negotiating Community and Nation in Cho Lon: Nation-building, Community-building and Transnationalism in Everyday Life during the Republic of Viet Nam, 1955-1975. Diss. University of Washington, 2016. Chair: Christoph Giebel.
- Ngo, Hoang. Building a New House for the Buddha: Buddhist Social Engagement and Revival in Vietnam, 1927-1951. Diss. University of Washington, 2015. Chair: Christoph Giebel.
- Davis, Bradley Camp. States Of Banditry:The Nguyen Government, Bandit Rule, And The Culture Of Power In The Post-Taipin. Diss. University of Washington, 2008. Chair: Christoph Giebel.
Courses Taught
Winter 2026
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Summer 2020
Spring 2020
Autumn 2019
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Summer 2018
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Graduate Study Areas
Divisions
Division: Asia--Pre-History to the Present
Professor Giebel offers fields covering the material and human history of Viet Nam from the beginnings to the present. Students focusing on the period before 1800 will emphasize local cultures and early kingdoms through the study of religion, architecture, art, archaeology, economics, ecology, and textual studies (literature, laws, chronicles, and oral traditions). Students working in the modern period will focus on the social, political, cultural and economic changes in Viet Nam from 1800 to the present. Emphasizes the growth of staes, imperialism, nationalism, the transformations of modernity, independence and the challenges of gendered, ethnic, and religious identities in the post-colonial world.