Christoph Giebel

Christoph Giebel

Associate Professor

Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies

Contact Information

giebel@uw.edu

(206) 543-6885

THO 320

Fields of Interest

Empire and Colonialism Historiography Nationalism Race and Ethnicity Southeast Asia

Biography

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1996

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

Selected Research

Giebel, Christoph. Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. Print.

Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations

Courses Taught

Spring 2017

HSTAS 265 A: The Viet Nam Wars

Summer 2016 B-term

HSTAS 265 A: The Viet Nam Wars

Spring 2016

Autumn 2015

Graduate Study Areas

Divisions

Asia: Pre-History to Present

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.

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