Position: Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-vietnamese History Field: East Asia Specialty: Social and cultural history of modern Vietnam Current Interests Public memory and public history; the famine of 1945 in northern Vietnam as experience and memory; telling lives: biography and autobiography. Selected Publications *"Remembered Realms: Pierre Nora and French National Memory" in The American Historical Review(2001) * The Country of Memory:Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (2001) * "Representing the Past in Vietnamese Museums" in Curator (1998) * "Monumental Ambiguity: the State Commemoration of Ho Chi Minh" in Essays into Vietnamese Pasts (1995) * Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution (1992) * Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam (1983)