Wynn W. Gadkar-Wilcox

Associate Professor

Department of History and Non-Western Cultures

Western Connecticut State University

Warner Hall 218

181 White Street

Danbury, CT 06810

Office Phone: (203) 837-8565 Fax: (203) 837-8905 email: wilcoxw@wcsu.edu

Course Schedule for Fall 2008:

NWC 105FY           Cultures of India

HIS 287                   History of Chinese Religions

HIS 388                   Modern Vietnam

Office Hours for Fall 2008:

TTh 10:10-10:50 and 3:20-4:00 and by appointment

Education:

BA with high honors and highest distinction in general scholarship, UC Berkeley, 1997

MA, Southeast Asian History, Cornell, 2000

PhD, Southeast Asian History, Cornell, 2002.

Teaching Interests:

History and Culture of Mainland Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam

Chinese History

Historiography and Intellectual History

Research Interests:

I'm interested in Southeast Asian, especially Vietnamese, historiography and intellectual history.  I am particularly interested in how history is used as a tool to reaffirm political or social ideologies.  My current book manuscript, In the Same Sampan: Allegory, Identity, and Foreignness in Vietnamese Historiography, examines how contemporary historians have used eighteenth and nineteenth century events in Vietnamese history as justifications for their twentieth century ideologies.

Selected Recent Publications:

“Women, Westernization, and the Origins of Modern Vietnamese Theatre,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 37:2 (June 2006), 205-224.

 “Transnationalism and Multiethnicity in the Early Gia Long Era,” in Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid, Vietnam: Borderless Histories.  (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), 194-218.

“Women and Mythology in Vietnamese History,” positions: east asia cultures critique 13:2 (Fall 2005), 411-439.

“Allegories of the US-Vietnam War: The ‘Unification Debates’ in Vietnamese, French and English, 1958-1975,” Crossroads, 17:1 (2003), 129-160.

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