Wynn Wilcox

Curriculum Vitae

 

Department of History and Non-Western Cultures

Western Connecticut State University

181 White Street

Danbury, CT 06810

wilcoxw@wcsu.edu

(203) 837-8565

           

POSITIONS HELD

 

2007-present    Associate Professor of History, Western Connecticut State University

 

2004-2007        Assistant Professor of History, Western Connecticut State University

 

2003-present    Faculty Associate in Research, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program.

 

2003-2004        Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York at Potsdam.

 

2002-2003        Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2002 Ph.D. in Southeast Asian History, Cornell University.  

Dissertation:  Allegories of Vietnam: Transculturation and the Origin Myths of Franco-Vietnamese Relations.  Examines how 18th century Franco-Vietnamese contact symbolically represents French colonialism, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War in historical constructions of the Vietnamese past.

Field Exams:  Modern Southeast Asian History, Japanese Literature/Critical Theory, Modern Chinese History.

Graduate Committee: Keith W. Taylor (Chair), Naoki Sakai, Sherman Cochran

 

2000  M.A. in History, Cornell University.

 

1997  B.A.  in History with Highest Distinction in General Scholarship and High Honors, University of California at Berkeley.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Editor, Vietnam and the West: New Perspectives.   Under contract and forthcoming with Cornell University Southeast Asia Publications.

 

Translated and Edited Phạm Đình Hồ, “On Customs,” and “On Drinking Tea,” in George Dutton, John Whitmore, and Jayne Werner (eds.), Sources of Vietnamese Tradition (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming).

 

 

 “Mandarins and Martyrs: The Church and the Nguyen Dynasty in early Nineteenth Century Vietnam.” (Book Review).  Journal of Vietnamese Studies 4:1 (Winter 2009): 250-3.

 

“Vài nhận định về trí thức miền Nam thời chiến,” [An Assessment of Southern Vietnamese Intellectuals during the War] BBCVietnamese (October 21, 2008).  http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/culture/story/2008/10/081021_south_vietnam_intellectuals.shtml

 

“The Tây Sơn Uprising: Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam.” (Book Review).  Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 39:1 (Feb. 2008): 185-6.

 

“Southern Vietnam under the Reign of Minh Mang.” (Book Review). Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 18:2 (2007): 181-3.

                       

“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.

 

“A Nôm Source on Nineteenth Century Vietnamese History: Father Đăng Đức Tuấn’s Thuật tích việc nước nam,” in Sơ Khoa Học và Công Nghẹ Thừa Thiên-Huế, Hội Thảo Quốc Tế về Chữ Nôm [Proceedings of the International Conference on Nom Studies] (Huế: Viện Hán Nôm, 2006).  Available online at http://www.nomfoundation.org/Conf2006/Wilcox_a_XIXC_Nom_source.pdf

 

“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.

 

“Hybridity, Colonialism, and National Subjectivity in Vietnamese Historiography,” in Joyce Goggin and Sonja Neef (eds.), Travelling Concepts I: Text, Subjectivity, Hybridity.  (Amsterdam: ASCA Press, 2001), pp. 201-211.

 

“In Their Image:  The Vietnamese Communist Party and the Social Evils Campaign of 1996,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 32: 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2000): pp. 15-21.

 

 

PAPERS PRESENTED

 

2008    “Existentialism in Saigon Political Culture.”  Paper presented at the “Beyond Dichotomies: Alternative Voices and Histories in Postcolonial Viet-Nam” Conference, University of Washington, May 24.

 

2008    “Southern Vietnamese Intellectuals and the Events of 1968.”  Paper presented at the Sixth Triennial Vietnam Symposium, the Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University, March 14.

 

2007    “Did a Vietnamese Delegation meet Abraham Lincoln?  And other myths in Vietnamese-American relations,” Invited lecture to be given at Connecticut College, November 5, 2007.

 

2006    “Lost Causes and Southern Sympathizers in Vietnamese Historiography,” Invited address given at the Yale University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, November 1, 2006.

 

2006     “Comparisons between Southern Historiography and Vietnamese Historiography,” Paper Presented at the WCSU History Department Faculty Forum, September 11, 2006.

 

2006    “A Nôm Source on Nineteenth Century Vietnamese History: Father Đăng Đức Tuấn’s Thuật tích việc nước nam,” [Presented in Vietnamese].  Presented at the 2006 International Nôm Conference, Huế, Vietnam, June 1, 2006.

 

2005    “Morality and the West in The Poisoned Cup,” Presented at the New Approaches to Vietnam and the West Conference, Western Connecticut State University, December 3, 2005.

 

2005    “Xenophobe or Bureaucrat: Myths about the Minh Mạng Emperor,” Accepted and scheduled for presentation at the CSU Faculty Research Conference, Central Connecticut State University, October 22, 2005.

 

2005    “The Myth of Bùi Viện.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL.

 

2004    “History in the Village: Commercializing India’s Religious Nationalism in Popular Film.”  Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL.

 

2004    “The Ambiguous Relationship: Recent Vietnamese Scholarship on the United States.”  Presented at the Cornell symposium on “Vietnamese Late Socialism: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Vietnam.”

 

2003     “New Culture from China: The Influence of the May Fourth Movement on Vietnam.”   Presented at the New York Conference on Asian Studies annual meeting, Buffalo, New York.

 

2003     “Woman as Wholesome National Culture: Configurations of Desire and Identity in “The Western Vietnamese.”  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, New York.

           

2002    “A Bishop and a Prince: A New Look at an Overblown Relationship.”   Paper at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies.

 

2002     “Allegories of the US-Vietnam War: The ‘Unification Debates in Vietnamese, French, and English, 1958-1975.”  Paper presented at the Southeast Asia Student Conference, Northern Illinois University.

 

2001    “Court Women, Prostitutes, and Foreigners: Gender and Continuity in Tây Son Era Vietnam.”  Paper Presented at the New York Conference on Asian Studies, Ithaca, NY.

 

2001    “Transnationalism and Multiethnicity in the Early Gia Long Era.”  Paper presented at the “Vietnam: Beyond the Frontiers” conference, University of California at Los Angeles.

 

2001    “Racial Separation as a Condition for Modernity in Vietnamese Historiography”.  Paper Presented at the “Transitions” Conference of the Cornell Southeast Asia Program.

 

2000    “Hybridity, Colonialism, and National Subjectivity in Vietnamese Historiography.”  Paper presented at the Conference on “Travelling Concepts: Subjectivity, Hybridity, Text,” Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.

 

1999    “Negotiating the Other: Siamese and Southern Vietnamese Royal Discourse in the Late Eighteenth Century.”  Paper presented at the New York Conference on Asian Studies.

 

1998    “In Their Image: The Vietnamese Communist Party and the Social Evils Campaign of 1996.”  “Institutions in the Post-Cold War World” Graduate Student Conference, George Washington University.

 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

2006                Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Award, Western Connecticut State University 

2003-                Appointed Faculty Associate in Research, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

2001-2002        Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Cornell University

2000-2001        Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant Award

1999                  Cornell University Fellowship for study at the School for Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, summer 1999

1998                  Ford Foundation Grant for Vietnamese Language Study in the Vietnamese

Advanced Summer Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam

1997-1998        Sage Foundation First Year Graduate Fellowship Recipient, Cornell University

1997                  Phi Beta Kappa Inductee

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

2005                  Organized and received grant funding for the New Approaches to Vietnam and the West Conference, a major conference to be held in December 2005 at Western Connecticut State University.

2005                  Organized and authored a grant to bring noted Vietnamese musician Pham Duc Thanh and Vietnam scholar K.W. Taylor to Western Connecticut State University to give a performance and a lecture respectively.

2005                  Organized exhibition of the Mekong Lifeways exhibit, a joint project of the   Smithsonian Institution and Western Connecticut State University, for display at Western Connecticut State University.

2004-present     Faculty advisor, Clio (Student History Journal)

2004-present     Assistant Coach, Western Connecticut State University Debate Team

2003                   Co-author (with Diane Fox and Denise Hare) of collaborative $2000 Grant from the Oregon Consortium for Asian Studies and co-organizer of Portland State University/Lewis and Clark College/Reed College Vietnamese Film Festival

2002                            Referee, Critical Asian Studies

2001                  Organized and successfully petitioned for sponsorship for Locality and Practice: Reinterpreting Vietnamese Christianity, a panel sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group, to be given at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, April 4-7, 2002.

2000                  University Teaching Methodology Course.   Designed full course and syllabus for Freshman Writing Seminar Course at Cornell University

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

Association for Asian Studies

American Historical Association

New England Conference on Asian Studies

Vietnam Studies Group

 

 

CURRENT RESEARCH

 

I am interested in the relationships that link the writing of history, ideology, and culture.    I am exploring these subjects in several current projects.  The most significant of these is the revision of my doctoral dissertation, which explores how histories about French people in Vietnam in the late eighteenth century become allegories for struggles between Vietnam and “the West” in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

 

LANGUAGES

 

Vietnamese-good reading and speaking ability

Classical Vietnamese (Nôm)-basic reading ability

Classical Chinese-basic reading ability

French-basic reading and speaking ability

Spanish-basic reading and speaking ability

Marathi-listening comprehension