LIEN-HANG T. NGUYEN
1737 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
(859) 257-4338 (office)
(610) 724-5756 (cell)
[email protected]
E DUCATION
Yale University, M.A. (2000); M. Phil. (2001); Ph.D., (2008).
Dissertation: “Between the Storms: North Vietnam’s Strategy during the Second Indochina
War, 1955-1973.”
Advisor: John Lewis Gaddis
University of Pennsylvania, B.A. (cum laude) (1996)
A CADEM IC P OSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Kentucky (2008-present)
Instructorship to turn into Assistant Professorship with Ph.D., Department of History, University of
Kentucky (2006-2008)
F ELLOW SHIPS
Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Fellowship in Grand Strategy, International Security Studies, Yale
University (2009-2010)
International Seminar on Decolonization, National History Center, American Historical Association
(AHA) (Summer 2009)
John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellowship for Military History and Strategy, International Security
Studies, Yale University (2008-2009)
Predoctoral Fellow, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University (2005-2006)
Predoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute for
International Studies, Stanford University (2004-2005)
Fulbright U.S. Student Program in Hanoi, Vietnam, Institute of International Education (2001-2002)
Smith-Richardson Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University (1998-2004)
P UBLICATIONS
Submitted Manuscripts
Hanoi’s War for Peace: An International History of the Vietnam War, The New Cold War History
Series (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Spring 2012).
Chapter Seven earned second place in the 2009 John A. Adams '71 Center for Military
History and Strategic Analysis Cold War Essay Contest, Virginia Military Institute.
Books-in-progress
The Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975: An International History, co-authored with Mark Bradley and
Robert Brigham. (Boston: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2012).
Women Warriors: Gender, People’s Diplomacy, and Peace in the Vietnam Era. Under research.
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Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters and Articles
“Vietnam and the ASEAN Way: A Security Model in the Making,” in Eds. Vojtech Mastny and
Zhu Liqun, The Security Challenge: From Alliance Systems to Cooperative Security
(Washington, DC: Parallel History Project, forthcoming 2012): 1-30.
Co-Editor along with Pierre Asselin of a special issue for Journal of Vietnamese Studies based on
participation at Vietnam in the Cold War: New Perspectives and Sources, workshop
organized by the History Department, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI, April 4-5,
2011 (accepted and forthcoming 2012).
“Vietnam in the Sino-Soviet Split,” Journal of Cold War Studies: Based on paper, “Between China
and Russia,” International Dimensions of the Vietnamese Crisis, 1945-1979,” presented at
the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, March 31-April 3,
2011 (accepted and forthcoming 2012).
“1968: Negotiating While Fighting or Just Fighting?” in Eds. Pierre Journoud and Cécile MenétreyMonchau, Vietnam, 1968-1976: Exiting a War (Brussels, Peter Lang, 2011): 37-49.
“The Vietnam Decade: The Global Shock of the War,” in Eds. Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez
Manela, and Daniel Sargent, Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2010): 310-340.
Co-Recipient of the 2010 Theodore A. Hallam Award for Best Article, Department of
History, University of Kentucky.
“Waging War on All Fronts: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Vietnam War, 1969-1972” in Eds. Fredrik
Logevall and Andrew Preston, Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 185-203.
“Cold War Contradictions: Toward an International History of the Second Indochina War, 19691973” in Eds. Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young, Making Sense of the Vietnam
Wars: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2008): 219-249.
“Sino-Vietnamese Split in the Post-Tet War in Indochina, 1968-1975” in Eds. Sophie Quinn-Judge
and Odd Arne Westad, The Third Indochina War: Conflict between China, Vietnam and
Cambodia, 1972-1979 (London: Routledge Press, 2006): 12-32.
“Vietnamese Perceptions of the French-Indochina War” in Eds. Fredrik Logevall and Mark
Lawrence, Indochina in the Balance: New Perspectives on the First Vietnam War.
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006): 41-55.
“The War Politburo: Vietnam’s Diplomatic and Political Road to the Tet Offensive,” Journal of
Vietnamese Studies 1, nos. 1-2 (February/August 2006): 4-55.
Recipient of the 2006 Theodore A. Hallam Award for Best Article, Department of History,
University of Kentucky.
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Translated by Talawas into Vietnamese: “Bộ Chính trị chiến tranh: Đường lối chính trị và
ngoại giao của Bắc Việt trong cuộc tấn công Tết Mậu Thân 1968”.
http://www.talawas.org/talaDB/showFile.php?res=9292&rb=0401
“Double Diaspora of Vietnam’s Catholics,” Orbis: Journal of World Affairs 39, issue 4 (Autumn
1995): 491-501.
Book Reviews
John Carland, ed., Foreign Relations of the United States, Vol. VII (Vietnam, July 1970-January
1972) in Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations (due March 2012, forthcoming January 2013).
Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from
Ford to Obama (Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press, 2011) in Journal of American
Studies (due January 2012, forthcoming).
David Hunt, Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War, 1959-1968
(Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008) in H-Diplo Roundtable Review,
Vol. XII, No. 11 (28 March 2011), <www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables>.
“Never-Ending War,” review of Mark Atwood Lawrence, The Vietnam War: An International
History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), Diplomatic History 34, no. 3 (June
2010): 611-614.
“A Long Time in Coming: A Review of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies Special Issue on the
Vietnam War,” Edward Miller and Tuong Vu, eds., Journal of Vietnamese Studies: Special
Issue on the Vietnam War, Vol. 4, Issue 3: 1-211 in H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. XI,
No. 12 (29 January 2010), <www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables>.
Mark Lawrence, Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Containment to War in Vietnam
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) in H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. VII,
No. 3 (1 May 2006), <www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables>.
Pierre Asselin, A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement (Chapel
Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002) in The Journal of Asian Studies 63,
no. 1 (February 2004): 127-128.
Reference Entries
“Ellsberg, Daniel” in Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Ed. Ruud Van Dijk (New York: MTM
Publishing/Routledge Press, 2008), 2 Vols., 1:293-295.
“Vo, Nguyen Giap” in Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Ed. Ruud Van Dijk (New York: MTM
Publishing/Routledge Press, 2008), 2 Vols., 2:955-956.
Commentaries and Op-Eds
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“Đường dẫn tới Cuộc chiến Đông Dương lần Ba [The Road to the Third Indochina War],” BBC
World Service – Vietnamese
http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/vietnam/2009/03/090303_lienhang_commentary_tc2.shtm
“Analogies at War: Comparing Iraq and Vietnam,” with Karthika Sasikumar, Stanford Report, 9
March 2005; San Jose Mercury News, 1 May 2005.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/11542730.htm
P RESENTATIONS
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A NNUAL M EETINGS
“The Rise of a New Human Rights Regime: Toward a Transnational History of the Vietnam War,”
The Cold War, Third World, and International History, Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Meeting, Alexandria, VA, June 2011.
“Between China and Russia,” International Dimensions of the Vietnamese Crisis, 1945-1979,
Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, March-April 2011.
“The Vietnam War Era: A Roundtable on George Herring’s From Colony to Superpower: U.S.
Foreign Relations since 1776: A Discussion of the Master Narrative of the United States
and the World,” SHAFR Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, June 2010.
“Détente or Global Shock? The International History of the 1970s after 40 Years,” Roundtable,
SHAFR Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, June 2010.
“Could Nixon have achieved peace in Vietnam in 1969 instead of 1973?—New US and Vietnamese
Evidence,” Roundtable, Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC, April 2010.
Televised on C-SPAN: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/292918-1
“What’s in a Name? Diplomatic History and the Future of the Field” Roundtable, SHAFR Annual
Meeting, Falls Church, VA, June 2009.
“Looking South: Moving Between Regions in U.S.-Third World Relations” Roundtable, SHAFR
Annual Meeting, Falls Church, VA, June 2009.
“Saigon After Tet,” American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, New York, NY,
January 2009.
“The Indochina Front during the Second Indochina War,” Third International Conference on
Vietnamese Studies: “Vietnam Integration and Development,” Vietnam Academy of Social
Sciences and Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2008.
“The Banes of Our Existence: North and South Vietnam’s Relations With Their Allies,” SHAFR
Annual Meeting, Lawrence, KS, June 2006.
“From Friend to Enemy: Relations between Cambodian and South Vietnamese Armed Forces
during the Second Indochina War,” AAS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2006.
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“Chat doc da cam: Vietnamese Efforts to Delegitimize the U.S. Use of Chemical Defoliants in the
Second Indochina War,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego,
CA, March 2006.
“Towards an International History of the Second Indochina War,” Perspectives on Vietnam and the
Vietnam-American War Roundtable, AHA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006.
“The End of the Affair: US-RVN Relations in the Post-Tet War,” New Approaches and New
Evidence on the Vietnam War Roundtable, SHAFR Annual Meeting, College Park, MD,
June 2005.
“New War, New Strategies: Saigon’s Diplomatic Struggle in the post-Tet War,” Fifth Triennial
Symposium, The Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, March 2005.
“Saigon Diplomacy, 1968-1973,” AAS Annual Meeting San Diego, CA, March 2004.
“Hanoi Diplomacy,” SHAFR Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 2003.
“Cold War Alliances in the Vietnam War,” UC Santa Barbara Center for Cold War Studies
(CCWS) Graduate Student Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2003.
I NVITED L ECTURES , T ALKS ,
AND
C OM M ENTARY
“End of War: The View From Hanoi and Saigon,” Drawdown: The Final Years of the Vietnam War,
Australian Chief of Army’s Annual Military History Conference, Canberra, Australia, 26-28
September 2012.
“The Soldiers With Long Hair: Gender and People’s Diplomacy during the Vietnam War,”
Symposium on War and Gender, organized by the Working Group on War and Gender,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, 8-9 September 2011.
“‘The Comrades Le’: A Study of Vietnamese Revolutionary Leadership,” Vietnam in the Cold
War: New Perspectives and Sources, workshop organized by the History Department,
Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI, 4-5 April 2011.
“The Sino-American-Vietnamese Triangle: A Historical Perspective,” Visiting Speaker Spring
Series, Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville, 23 February 2010.
Participant, Regional and National Identities in the Cold War in East Asia: the Integration of East
Asian and Western Perspectives, workshop organized by the Department of East Asian
Studies, University of Cambridge, England, 13-14 December 2010.
Participant, Remembering Vietnam: The Last Memoir of the War in the Mekong Delta, workshop
co-organized by the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy and the Center for
Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society, Temple University, Philadelphia, 11
November 2010.
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Commentator, “The View from Hanoi: Historians from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” The
American Experience in Southeast Asia, 1946-1975, United States Department of State,
Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian, Washington, DC, 29-30 September 2010.
Televised: http://history.state.gov/conferences/2010-southeast-asia/view-from-hanoi
Commentator, “Lessons Learned,” Vietnam – A 35 Year Retrospective Conference, organized by
Ambassador Bui Diem, Army-Navy Club of Washington, DC, 9 April 2010.
“International History and Public Policy,” History as Resource for Decision-Making, University of
California, Berkeley, 12-14 March 2010.
Participant, “History for Decision-Makers – Scenario Workshop on China’s Future,” run by
Monitor Group 360 for History as Resource for Decision-Making, University of California,
Berkeley, 11 March 2010.
“End of Nixon’s War in Vietnam,” Lecture at the Naval Academy, 24 November 2009.
“The Diplomatic and Military History of the ‘non-West’ Panel,” Olin Foundation Fellows
Conference & Reunion, International Security Studies, Yale University, 24 October 2009.
Commentator, Empire at End: Understanding the Political Economy of Change in the Late Cold
War, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University, 3-4
April 2009.
“The Evolving Politics of War History in Vietnam” Southeast Asian Studies Program, The Paul H.
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, 12
November 2008.
Commentator, Global 1970s, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1011 October 2008.
“The Sino-Soviet Split and the Vietnam War: New Evidence on the 1968 and 1972 Offensives,”
Colloquium in International History and Security International Security Studies, Yale
University, 16 September 2008.
“The Contribution of the National Liberation Front-Provisional Revolutionary Government of
South Vietnam in the Diplomatic Struggle,” Selected Aspects of the History and Perception
of the Resistance Movement in South Vietnam, 1954-1975, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and
the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 4-6
September 2008.
“Hanoi: Negotiating While Fighting or Just Fighting?,” War, Diplomacy & Public Opinion: The
Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam and the End of the War in Vietnam (1968-1975), University
of Paris-Sorbonne, 13-14 May 2008.
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“Cold War Contradictions,” Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars Conference, University of
Kentucky, 10-13 October 2007.
“Nixon, Kissinger and the Vietnam War, 1969-1973,” Mershon Center, The Ohio State University,
1-2 December 2006.
Commentator, Vietnam Studies: States of the Field Conference, Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
University of California, Berkeley, 6 April 2006.
Commentator, Vietnam and the West: New Approaches Conference, Western Connecticut State, 2-4
December 2005.
“Hanoi’s Grand Strategy during the Second Indochina War,” Southeast Asia Program, Cornell
University, 15 September 2005.
“The Politics of Tet 1968,” Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley,
27 January 2005.
“DRV & RVN Foreign Policies” and “Archival System in Vietnam,” The Vietnam War Thirty Years
On: Unanswered Questions and the Search for Documentary Evidence, Center for
Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture and Society, Temple University June 2005.
Commentator, New Central and Eastern European Evidence on the Cold War in Asia, The Cold
War History Research Center, Budapest, Hungary, October 2003.
“Sino-Vietnamese Split in the Post-Tet War in Indochina,” Tripolar Diplomacy and the Third
Indochina War Conference, Cold War Studies Programme, London School of Economics,
May 2003.
“Vietnamese Perceptions of the French-Indochina War,” The French-Indochina War: Nationalism,
Colonialism, and the Cold War Conference, Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas,
November 2002.
T EACHING
University of Kentucky, Assistant Professor/Instructor (2006-present): Awarded “A Teacher Who
Made a Difference,” College of Education (2009)
•Department of History Graduate Seminar (600-level)
“United States Foreign Relations Since 1900”
•Committee on Social Theory Program, Graduate Seminar (600-level)
“War”
•Department of History Upper-Division Lectures (500-level)
“U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy to 1919”
“U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy since 1919”
•Department of History Seminars (300-400-level)
“Wars of Indochina”
“America’s Vietnam War”
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“International Cold War History”
•A&S Wired Residential College (freshmen seminar)
“Writing History: The Vietnam War”
Yale University, Instructor/Teaching Fellow (2000-2004)
•Department of History Advanced Junior Seminar, Instructor
“Indochina At War, 1945-1979”
•Department of History, Teaching Fellow
“Modern Southeast Asia”
“American Foreign Relations Since 1945”
“The Vietnam War”
Certified Teaching Fields
“Decolonization” (certificate conferred at the 2009 International Seminar on Decolonization)
“Modern Southeast Asian History” (related minor field)
“Comparative Colonialisms: French Indochina and the British Raj” (unrelated minor field)
P ROFESSIONAL S ERVICE
Co-Editor (along with Lady Borton and Stephen Wrinn)
“Voices from Vietnam Series”, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (2010-present):
Translation series that will present books from Vietnam in conjunction with Vietnamese
publishers.
Elected Positions
Nominating Committee Member, SHAFR (2008-2009, chair 2010)
Executive Committee Member, Vietnam Studies Group (VSG), Sub-Committee of the Southeast
Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) (2004-present)
Appointed Positions:
Treasurer, VSG, AAS (2010-2013)
Bernath Article Prize Selection Committee Member, SHAFR (2008, chair 2009)
Officer, The Vietnam Center-VSG Academic Advisory Council (2004-2006)
Secretary, VSG (2005)
Peer Reviewer:
Diplomatic History
Journal of Vietnamese Studies
South East Asia Research
China Quarterly
Founder/Organizer:
Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars Conference, University of Kentucky (10-13 October 2007).
Conceptualized, raised funds, and co-organized conference that included a public talk by
former Senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern and presentations
by top scholars of the Vietnam wars.
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Cultural and Personal Migrations in Modern East and Southeast Asia, University of Kentucky
(2006-2007). Co-organized speaker series that received a grant from “Migrations: An
Interdisciplinary Series.”
Yale Vietnamese Studies Group (YVSG), Council on Southeast Asian Studies, Yale University
(2000-present). Established an interdisciplinary workshop and study group focused on
Vietnam Studies.
Unleashing Our Legacies: Exploring Third World Feminisms, Greenfield Intercultural Center,
University of Pennsylvania (March 1998). Conceptualized, raised funds, and organized
conference that bridged academia, art, and activism surrounding Third World Feminisms.
G RANTS , A W ARDS & P RIZES
University of Kentucky
Theodore A. Hallam Award for Best Article, Department of History (2010, 2006)
“A Teacher Who Made a Difference,” College of Education (2009)
Grant, Office of the Provost (2007-2008)
Conference and Workshop Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research (2007-2008)
Major Grant, College of Arts & Sciences (2006-2007)
Yale University
Council on Southeast Asian Studies Grant (1999-2003)
John F. Enders Grant (2002)
John Perry Miller Grant (2002)
Yale Council on International and Area Studies Dissertation Research Grant (2001-2002)
Mellon Fellowship (2000)
University of Pennsylvania
Writing Across the University Award (WATU) (1996)
A FFILIATIONS & M EM BERSHIPS
Member, Parallel History Project (PHP) on Cooperative Security, International Relations and
Security Network) (2008-present)
Member, American Historical Association (AHA) (2002-present)
Member, Association of Asian Studies (AAS) (2002-present)
Member, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) (2002-present)
Member, Vietnam Studies Group (VSG) (2002-present)
Visiting Scholar, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George
Washington University (Summer 2003)
Visiting Scholar & Researcher, Center for Research on Vietnamese and Intercultural Affairs (20012002)
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