Christoph Giebel | Department of History | University of Washington

Associate Professor

Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies

Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor in History

Contact Information

giebel@uw.edu

(206)-543-6885

THO 320

Office Hours

AUT 20: Please contact to set up a virtual appointment.

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

Courses Taught

Spring 2025

HSTAS 490 A: Topics in Asian History

Winter 2025

Spring 2024

Winter 2024

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

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.

Christoph Giebel (He/him)