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Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
Department of History
California State University, Sacramento
6000 J St.
Sacramento, CA 95819-6059
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152 Plateau Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
[email protected]
(831) 252-6970 cell
Vice Chair, Department of History, California State University, Sacramento
Coordinator, History/Social Science Pre-Credential Program, Department of History,
California State University, Sacramento
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Associate Professor, Department of History, California State University, Sacramento
Academic Coordinator for World History Teacher Training, History Project-UC Davis
Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, Sacramento
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate
School
Lecturer, Department of History, Santa Clara University
Stevenson College Faculty Advisor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Lecturer for Department of History, Stevenson College, and Merrill College, University of
Head Teaching Assistant/ Teaching Assistant Trainer, Department of History, University
of California, Santa Cruz
Summer Session Instructor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Instructor of Business English, Metropolitan Business College, Hanoi, Vietnam
Graduate Teaching Assistant in History and Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Reader in History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D. in History, University of California, Santa Cruz
M.A. in History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Masters Thesis: “The History and Structure of Immigrant Labor in France, 1945-1983”
B.A. in History with Honors in the Major and College Honors from Stevenson College,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Graduate with Honors of ‘Iolani School, Honolulu, Hawai’i
Dissertation:
“White City on the Red River: Race, Power, and Culture in French Hanoi, 1872-1954”
Dissertation Committee: Tyler Stovall (UCSC), chair, Edmund Burke III (UCSC), & Kristin
Ross (NYU)
Publications:
Books:
(forthcoming 2015) World History Primary Sources, W.W. Norton, New York.
2012
Twentieth Century Voices: Selected Readings in World History. Cognella, San Diego.
2008
“The Colonial Good Life:” A Commentary on Andre Joyeux’s Vision of French Indochina,
translated, introduced, and annotated with Joel Montague. White Lotus Press, Bangkok.
(in progress)
White City on the Red River, manuscript currently undergoing revisions for publication.
2014
Film:
“Cambodia’s Other Lost City: French Colonial Phnom Penh,” Jeffrey Dym director:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5gKeQFMVw4
Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
Edited Volumes:
2010
2014
“WHAB Focus Issue and Teaching Forum. Making French Connections: France in World
History.” Guest Editor with Alyssa Sepinwall. World History Bulletin (vol. XXVI, No. 1).
Articles/Book Chapters:
“When the World Came to Southeast Asia: Malacca and the Global Economy,” Education
About Asia. V. 19, N. 2.
2013
“Haunted house, haunted history: Visitors to Semarang’s Lawang Sewu find competing
narratives of history, memory and popular culture,” Inside Indonesia: July 1:
http://www.insideindonesia.org/current-edition/haunted-house-haunted-history
2013
“Shadow Puppets and Special Forces: Indonesia’s Fragile Democracy,” The Diplomat,
June 14: http://thediplomat.com/2013/06/14/shadow-puppets-and-special-forcesindonesias-fragile-democracy/
2012
“Hanoi in the Time of Cholera: Epidemic Disease and Racial Power in the Colonial City”
in Laurence Monnais and Harold J. Cook (eds.), Global Movements, Local Concerns:
Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia (National University Singapore Press).
2011
“Fear and Loathing in French Hanoi: Colonial White Images and Imaginings of ‘Native’
Violence” in Martin Thomas (ed.) The French Colonial Mind: Violence, Military
Encounters, and Colonialism (University of Nebraska Press).
2010
“Teaching Colonialism in World History: The Case of French Indochina.” World History
Bulletin (vol. XXVI, No. 1).
2010
“Of Pirates, Postcards, and Public Beheadings: The Pedagogical Execution in French
Colonial Indochina” in a special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
dedicated to colonial violence in the French empire.
2010
“Placing East Timor on the Syllabus: Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching East Timor in
University Level World History Survey Courses” in Michael Leach, Nuno Canas Mendes,
Antero B. da Silva, Alarico da Costa Ximenes and Bob Boughto (eds.), Hatene kona ba/
Compreender/ Understanding/ Mengerti Timor-Leste (Swinburne Press).
2009
“Caricaturing 'the colonial good life' in French Indochina.” European Comic Art (v.1 n.2,
2009).
2007
“Building Whiteness on the Red River: Race, Power, and Urbanism in Paul Doumer’s
Hanoi, 1897-1902” in a special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
dedicated to French colonial urbanism.
2006
“White Blood on Rue Hue: The Murder of ‘le négrier’ Bazin.” The Proceedings of the
Western Society for French History (Volume 34)
2005
“Of le Cafard and Other Tropical Diseases: Perceived Threats to White Colonial Culture
in Indochina” in Jennifer Yee (ed.), France and ‘Indochina:’ Cultural
Representations(Lexington)
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Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
2004
“‘All the World’s a Stage’, Especially in the Colonies: The Hanoi Exposition of 1902” in
Martin Evans & Amanda Sackur (ed.), Empire and Culture: The French Experience,
1830-1940 (Macmillan/Palgrave Press)
2004
“The Third Republic and Colonialism, 1870-1918”:
http://www.port.ac.uk/special/france1815to2003/indexofinterviews/
2004
“The Colonial Exhibition of May, 1931”:
http://www.port.ac.uk/special/france1815to2003/indexofinterviews/
2003
“Of Rats, Rice, and Race: The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, an Episode in French Colonial
History,” French Colonial History Society
2003
“The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly: Variation and Difference in French Racial Thinking in
Colonial Vietnam” in Tyler Stovall & Sue Peabody (ed.), The Color of Liberty: The History
of Race in France (Duke University Press)
2002
“The Colonial Casbah on the Silver Screen: Using Pépé le Moko and The Battle of
Algiers to Teach Colonialism, Race, and Globalization in French History,” Radical History
Review, April
1998
“The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly: Variation and Difference in French Racial Thinking in
Colonial Indochine,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Winner of
the Gargan Prize
1997
“Contesting Culture and Defying Dependency: Migration, Nationalism, and Identity in
Late-Nineteenth-Century Hawaii,” Stanford Humanities Review, v. 5, n. 2
(Forthcoming)
Reviews:
Robbie Peters, Surabaya, 1945-2010: Neighbourhood, State and Economy in
Indonesia’s City of Struggle for TRaNS: Trans-Regional and –National Studies of
Southeast Asia.
2014
Michelle Caswell, Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic
Record in Cambodia for The Public Historian.
2014
Jafar Suryomenggolo, Organising under the Revolution: Unions and the State in Java,
1945-1948 for Southeast Asian Studies.
2013
Rithy Panh’s film The Sea Wall for Siksacakr: The Journal of Cambodian Research.
2012
René Vautier’s film Avoir vingt ans dans les Aurès and Costa-Gravas’ film Mon colonel
for French and Film for French Historians: A Cultural Bulletin (v.3, issue 1): http://hfrance.net/fffh/maybe-missed/the-dark-side-french-men-becoming-monsters-in-algeria/
2011
Sarah Vowell, Unfamiliar Fishes, World History Connected (v.8, n.3).
2011
Eric Jennings, Imperial Heights: Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina
for Reviews in History (review #1146).
2011
Van Nguyem-Marshall, In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse of Poverty, Poor
Relief, and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam for H-France.
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Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
2009
Dana S. Hale, Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples for HFrench-Colonial.
2008
Règis Warnier’s film Indochine, Asian Educational Media Service, Education About Asia,
v. 13, n. 1
2008
Herman Lebovics, Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies, The Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History.
2008
Heonik Kwon, After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My
Lai, The Public Historian.
2007
Eric Jennings, Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial
Spas for H-France.
2006
Amaury Lorin, Paul Doumer, gouveneur general de l’Indochine (1897-1902), le tremplin
colonial for H-France.
2004
“Reflections on ‘Drowning by Bullets’: Empire, Race, and Memory in French History,”
French Colonial History Society News Letter.
2004
“Conference Report on 'Indochina', India and France: Cultural Representations,” French
Studies Bulletin
2003
Brett Berliner, Ambivalent Desire for H-France:
http://www3.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/vann2.html
2003
David Slavin, Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939, The Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History, v. 4, n. 1:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/toc/cch4.1.html
#reviews
2002
Nicola Cooper, France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters. H-France:
http://www3.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/vann.html, September, 2002
Interviews:
2012
“The Cobra Effect” on National Public Radio’s Freakonomics:
http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/10/11/the-cobra-effect-a-new-freakonomics-radiopodcast/
2012
“Our Man in Hanoi: Historian Mike Vann” on KUSP’s The 7 Avenue Project: Thinking
Persons’ Radio: http://7thavenueproject.com/post/31761023474/mike-vann-colonialism
2012
“Episode 9: Perverse Incentives” on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s The Invisible
Hand with Matthew Lazin-Rydaer:
http://www.cbc.ca/theinvisiblehand/episodes/2012/08/22/episode-nine-perverseincentives/
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Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
2011
“His Academic Excellency Paul Kagame at Sacramento State University?” on KPFA
Weekend News: http://www.anngarrison.com/audio/his-academic-excellency-paulkagame-at-sacramento-state-university
Awards:
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Competitive awards:
Fall Fellowship in the Republic of Korea, Korea Society
Center for Khmer Studies CAORC Senior Fellowship to produce a short film on Phnom
Penh’s colonial legacy.
U.S. Embassy Jakarta Target of Opportunity Speaker Grant to lecture at four Indonesian
universities.
J. William Fulbright U.S. Scholars Grant from the Council for the International Exchange
of Scholars, Senior Scholar at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
ACE: International Curriculum and Pedagogy Project to use technology to link Sac State
students with Southeast Asia students in the context of Hist 50: World Civilizations to
1600 and Hist 149: Modern Southeast Asia
“Modernity's Histories In Global Context: Contested Narratives, Models, Processes”
Stipendiary Fellow (a competitive award for best graduate student paper funded by the
UC President's Office)
The Western Society for French History’s Edward Gargan Prize for Best Paper by a
Graduate Student
J. William Fulbright Grant from the Institute of International Education, for research at the
Archives Nationales Section d’Outre-Mer, Aix-en-Provence, France
2005
1990-1991
Campus awards
Pedagogy Enhancement Grant to create a new course: “Indonesia, 1965” and travel to
Jakarta for research
University Enterprises Inc. travel grant for a conference in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and
research in Hanoi, Vietnam
Faculty Travel Fund award for a conference in Paris, France
Faculty Research Fund for a conference and research in Hanoi, Vietnam
University Enterprises Inc. travel grant for a conference in Siem Reap, Cambodia
University Enterprises Inc. travel grant for a conference in Beijing, China
Visiting Scholar Grant to host Professor Robert Lemelson, director of “40 Years of
Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy.”
Pedagogy Enhancement Grant to embed video into PowerPoint lectures
Pedagogy Enhancement Grant to develop an internship for Pre-Credential History
Students
Travel Grant for conference in Quebec Ville, Canada, Sac State President’s Office
Research and Creative Activities grant to prepare manuscript of “Whiteness on the Red
River” for publication
Travel Grant for conference in Penang, Malaysia, Research and Sponsored Projects
Travel Grant for conference in Exeter, United Kingdom, Research and Sponsored
Projects
Travel Grant for conference in Cambodia, Research and Sponsored Projects
University of California Regents Fellowship
2012
2011
2010
2009
Department awards:
Travel Grant for conference in New Orleans, LA
Travel Grant for conference in Portland, OR
Travel Grant for conference in Paris, France
Travel Grant for conference in Dili, East Timor
2014
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2012
2011
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Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
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Presentations:
January, 2015
Travel Grant for conference in Quebec City, Canada
Travel Grant for conference in Jakarta, Indonesia
Travel Grant for conference in Exeter, United Kingdom
Travel Grant for conference in Cambodia
Writing Fellowship from the History Department, UCSC
Travel Grants from the History Department, UCSC, for conferences in England & Canada
Research Grants from the History Department, UCSC, for research in France & Vietnam
American Studies Association of Indonesia Road Show:
“Imperialism and its Economic Impact,” State University of Jakarta (UNJ) with
Islamic Institute of Latifah Mubarokiyah, Jakarta, “The Influence of Western
Civilization on the Islamic World,” Islamic Institute of Latifah Mubarokiyah,
Tasikmalaya, Indonesia, “Rethinking US. Imperialism,” University of Gadjah
Mada, Yogyakarta, and “Rethinking US. Imperialism,” University of Ahmad
Dahlan Yogyakarta.
September, 2014
“Tropical Cold War Horror Show: Pengkhianatan G30 S/PKI and the Traumatised
Culture of Suharto’s New Order,” The Cold War on Film: Then and Now, German
Historical Institute, Moscow, Russia.
July, 2014
“The Lady in the Lake and Other Tales of Imperial Republican Iconography in French
Hanoi” and screening of “Cambodia's Other Lost City: French Colonial Phnom Penh,”
French Colonial Historical Society, Paññāsāstra University-Siem Reap, Siem Reap,
Cambodia.
June, 2014
“Call Five-O a White Male Imperialist Fantasy: Steve McGarrett as a Vision of
American Cold War Masculinity, Race, and Empire,” The Cold War and
Entertainment Television, Archives Nationales/Paris VIII-St. Denis, Paris, France.
March, 2014
“De l’Indochine fantasmée à l’Indo-Chic. Représentations et imaginaire colonial,” De
L’Indochine Coloniale au Việt Nam Actuel, Académie des Sciences d’Outre-Mer,
Paris, France.
January, 2014
“Cartoons, Sewers, and Rats: Historical Ethnographies of Colonial Hanoi,” University
of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
December, 2013
“Murder, Museums, and Memory Holes: Comparing Cold War Public History in
Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City,” World History Association Symposium on Vietnam in
World History, Hanoi, Vietnam.
November, 2013
“Memory and Mass Murder in Cold War Indonesia: Josh Oppenheimer’s The Act of
Killing,” Sacramento State
October, 2013
“Paris–Dakar in Reverse: Reconsidering Colonial Urban History and the Origins of
the Postmodern,” Western Society for French History, Atlanta, GA.
July, 2013
“The Significance of the Colonial Past in Southeast Asian Cities,” Senior Fellow Talk,
Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
July, 2013
“Murder, Museums, and Memory Holes: Comparing Cold War Public History in
Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, and Phnom Penh,” Senior Fellow Talk, Center for Khmer
Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
Studies, Phnom Penh.
July, 2013
“The King of the Cold War: Reading American Imperial Masculinity in Elvis Presley’s
Film Personae,” US Embassy organized talks at Kheramak Unversity, Phnom Penh,
and the University of Southeast Asia, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
July, 2013
“The King of the Cold War: Reading American Imperial Masculinity in Elvis Presley’s
Film Personae,” American Corner: US Consulate, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
June, 2013
“The King of the Cold War: Reading American Imperial Masculinity in Elvis Presley’s
Film Personae,” UGM Roadshow: Universitas Negara Islam, Bandung, Indonesia,
and University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
June, 2013
“American Foreign Policy in Latin America: Overcoming an Imperialist Past,” U.S.
Embassy Target of Opportunity Speaker: Universitas Al-Azhan, Jakarta, Indonesia.
June, 2013
“The American Imperialism Debate,” U.S. Embassy Target of Opportunity Speaker:
University of Indonesia, Jakarta.
May, 2013
“Murder, Museums, and Memory Holes: Comparing Cold War Public History in
Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City,” Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Forum, Universitas Gadjah
Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
April, 2013
“Plus ça change, plus c’est le monde d’Asie: Finding Modernity in the History of
Asian Emporia of Malacca, Manila, and Canton,” Asian Community and Its
Development in Globalization, One Asia Foundation Lecture Series, Universitas
Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
March 2013
“Republicanism as a Religion: Imperialist Iconography in French Indochina,” CRCSICRS Forum, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
March, 2013
“Children of Abraham or a Clash of Civilizations?: The Influence of Western
Civilization in Islamic Countries,” Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
March, 2013
“Preparing Global Citizens: World History Curriculum for 21 Century Southeast
Asian University Students,” 5th Annual Mid-Year Enrichment Workshop for American
Fulbright Students and Scholars in Southeast Asia, Bangkok, Thailand
February, 2013
“Sex, Lies, and the Cartoons of Empire: Exploring Gender, Race, and Power in
Colonial Vietnam,” University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
December, 2012
“Finding History in the Strangest of Places: Methodological Adventures in the
Archives, Sewers, and Funny Pages of Colonial Vietnam,” Jurusan Sejarah, Fakultas
Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
December, 2012
“Occidentalism, Soft Power, or Critical Empire Studies: Possible Paths for American
Studies in Indonesia,” American Studies in Indonesia and Its Implications, Fakultas
Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
June, 2012
“’You Need Another Lover Like You Need a Hole in Yo Head’: Rithy Panh takes on
Marguerite Duras.” French Colonial Historical Society, New Orleans, LA.
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Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
April, 2012
“Sex and the Colonial City: Whiteness, Gender, and Power in French Hanoi, 1898.”
Ici, Indochine, Bucknell University, PA.
March, 2012
“Images of Empire: Using Film to Teach French Colonial History.” Society for French
Historical Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
March, 2012
“There Always Has to be a Malacca, Even if it’s not Malacca.” UC Davis History
Project’s “Cities in World History” series, Sacramento.
January, 2012
“Adding ‘Economists with Guns’ to the Narrative of Communists with Guns: Creating
Balance in Teaching the World History of the Cold War in Southeast Asia.” Southeast
Asia and World History: A WHA Symposium, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
November 2011
“Tales of Two Colonial Cities: Official and Unofficial Images of French Hanoi.”
Western Society for French History, Portland, OR.
November, 2011
Commentator “Representations of Class and Culture.” Western Society for French
History, Portland, OR.
October, 2011
“The Revolution of Industrial Transportation: Selected Documents to Teach a World
in Transition. California World History Association, La Jolla, CA.
July, 2011
“Geography of Africa” & “France and the Holocaust” for History Project summer
series.
July, 2011
“The Chinatown Syndrome: Mapping Racial Power and Sexual Desire in Colonial
Vietnam.” World History Association, Beijing, PRC.
June, 2011
“The Chinatown Syndrome: Racial Power and Sexual Desire in Colonial Vietnam.”
French Colonial Historical Society, Toronto.
May, 2011
“Indonesia: Short History or Long History?” History Project, Sacramento.
April, 2011
“Sex and the Colonial City: Whiteness, Masculinity, and Power in French Hanoi,
1898.” Invited talk at Boundaries in Question: Japanese and French Colonial
Empires, North Carolina State University.
November, 2010
“État colonial à Hanoi.” Hanoi, Mille ans d’histoire, sponsored by Université de Paris
I: Sorbonne and held at the Musée de l’Armée, Hôtel des Invalides, Paris, France.
October, 2010
“Race, Power, and Gender in the Hanoi Funny Pages.” California World History
Association, Sacramento, CA.
October, 2010
“From the Archives to the Classroom: Making Connections between the Researchers
and Teachers of World History.” California World History Association, Sacramento,
CA.
October, 2010
Panel Chair, “Imperial and Indigenous Perspectives on World History.” California
World History Association, Sacramento, CA.
October, 2010
“World History’s Historiography.” History Project, Sacramento, CA.
Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
June, 2010
“From the Archives to the Classroom: Making Connections between the Researchers
and Teachers of World History.” World History Association, San Diego, CA.
June, 2010
Panel Chair, “Curriculum and Educational Policy: Teaching World History?” World
History Association, San Diego, CA.
June, 2010
Discussant, “Images of the American Empire: The Pacific Basin and Beyond.” World
History Association, San Diego, CA.
June, 2010
Panel Chair, “Activism, Advocates, Reform, and Colonial Missions in the 20th
Century Empire.” Panel Chair, French Colonial Historical Society, Paris, France.
January, 2010
“The World and Two Very Small Places in Southeast Asia: Using Cambodia and East
Timor to Teach Genocide in World History.” Invited speaker for the Second
Conference on Cambodia and World History, Pannasastra University, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia.
October, 2009
“The Funnier Side of Imperialism? The Cartoons of André Joyeux, Saigon, 1912.”
Invited speaker for the History Project, Sacramento.
October, 2009
“Carnal Cartoons of Colonialism: White Male Sexual Desires, Fantasies, and
Adventures in the Local Popular Press of French Saigon and Hanoi, 1890-1914,”
Western Society for French History, Boulder, CO.
October, 2009
“Drugs and Medicine in the French Empire,” Panel Commentator, Western Society
for French History, Boulder, CO.
October, 2009
“East Timor in the World and the World in East Timor: Using Small Case-Studies to
Teach the Big Picture,” California World History Association, Riverside, CA.
August, 2009
“British Industrialization in a Global Context,” History Project, Sacramento.
July, 2009
“Placing East Timor on the Syllabus: Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching East Timor
in University Level History Survey Courses.” Understanding Timor-Leste: A Research
Conference, Liceu Campus, National University of Timor-Lorosae, Dili, East Timor.
May, 2009
“Representations of Colonialism/Les Répresentations du colonialism,” Panel Chair,
French Colonial Historical Society, San Francisco.
March, 2009
“The Funnier Side of Imperialism? The Cartoons of André Joyeux, Saigon, 1912.”
Invited speaker for the Phi Alpha Theta, Sacramento State.
February, 2009
“The Funnier Side of Imperialism? The Cartoons of André Joyeux, Saigon, 1912.”
Invited speaker for the History Department, Cal Poly.
January, 2009
“French Hanoi: Urbanism and Race.” Invited speaker for Science, Technology and
Modernity: Colonial Cities in Asia, 1890-1940, Johns Hopkins University
January, 2009
"Colonial Violence in a World Historical Perspective: Cambodia in Context."
Cambodia and World History, Pannasastra University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
November, 2008
“Globalizing Racism: Colonial Whiteness as a Tool for Understanding Racism in
Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
Early 20th Century World History.” California World History Association, San
Francisco State University.
November, 2008
“Teaching French Colonial History: Memorial Plenary Session for Ron Love.”
Western Society for French History, Quebec, Canada.
November, 2008
“Camille’s Fanonian Moment: Revisiting Images of the Colonial Violence in Régis
Wargnier’s Indochine.” Western Society for French History, Quebec, Canada.
November, 2008
Panel Commentator, “Racial Categories, Identities, and Politics.” Western Society for
French History, Quebec, Canada.
May, 2008
“Threats to ‘White Prestige in the Eyes of the Natives’: The Trials of Clémenti and de
Monpezat,” French Colonial Historical Society, Quebec, Canada.
May, 2008
Panel Commentator, “Domination et circulation des idées, des savoirs et des
pratiques en Indochine française, 1858-1954,” French Colonial Historical Society,
Quebec, Canada.
April, 2008
“Whiteness in Color: Revisiting Colonial Racial Identity in Regis Wargnier’s
Indochine,” Asian Studies Symposium, CSUS.
January, 2008
“New Perspectives on the Old Cold War. Hot Battles of the Cold War: Teaching
Southeast Asia, 1945-1989,” History Project, Sacramento.
January, 2008
“Constructing and Containing the Celestial Pathogenic Peril: Racism, Colonial Power,
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and Disease in French Hanoi,” 2 History of Medicine in Southeast Asia, Penang,
Malaysia.
December, 2007
“Whiteness in Color: Revisiting Colonial Racial Identity in Regis Wargnier’s
Indochine,” 4th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference: Ethics, Social Justice,
and Collective Responsibility, Jakarta, Indonesia.
November, 2007
“Failures of the Pax Coloniale: Asian on Asian Violence in French Hanoi,” Western
Society for French History, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
May, 2007
“British Industrialization in a Global Context,” History Project, Sacramento.
April, 2007
“Fear and Loathing in French Hanoi: Colonial White Images and Imaginings of
‘Native’ Violence,” an invited paper presented at “The French Colonial Mind: Mental
Maps of Empire and French Colonial Policy,” an international conference held at the
University of Exeter, United Kingdom.
January, 2007
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and its Historical Context,” University of
California, Santa Cruz.
October, 2006
“White Blood on rue Hue: The Murder of ‘le négrier’ Bazin,” Western Society for
French History, Long Beach, California.
October, 2006
Panel commentator on “Colonial Perspectives,” Western Society for French History,
Long Beach, California.
Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
May, 2006
“Punishment as a Pageant of Power: The Pedagogical Execution in Colonial
Indochine,” French Colonial Historical Society, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar,
Senegal
February, 2006
“Introducing Southeast Asian History and Geography,” California Agricultural
Leadership Program, UC Davis
January, 2006
“Hanoi in the Time of Cholera: Epidemic Disease and Racial Power in the Colonial
City,” History of Medicine in Southeast Asia, Siem Reap, Cambodia
May, 2005
“Frantz Fanon: Colonial Theorist or Colonial History?: Introducing Frantz Fanon:
Black Skin, White Mask,” French Colonial Historical Society, Wolfsville, Nova Scotia,
Canada
May, 2005
“French Indochina,” Panel Commentator, French Colonial Historical Society,
Wolfsville, Nova Scotia, Canada
April, 2005
”Building a White City on the Red River: Race in French Colonial Urban Planning in
Hanoi,” Society for French Historical Studies, Stanford
May, 2004
“Reflections on a Colonial Massacre in Paris, October 17, 1961: Introducing
Drowning by Bullets,” French Colonial Historical Society, Washington, D.C.
May, 2004
“Tonkin History,” Panel Chair & Commentator, French Colonial Historical Society,
Washington, D.C.
April, 2004
“The White Colony,” Panel Chair, Discontents of French Civilization, Berkeley,
California
October, 2003
“Race Relations and Racial Formations in Colonial Indochina,” Commentator,
Western Society for French History, Newport Beach, California
September, 2003
“Of Le Cafard and Other Risques Coloniaux: The Perceived Threat of Tropical
Disease and the White Colonial Culture in Indochine,” “Indochina,” India and France:
Cultural Representations, Newcastle, U.K.
March, 2003
“Reflection on the Theory and Practice of Race in the French Colonial Empire,” Race
Across Time in France: The Genealogy of a Concept, University of California,
Berkeley
January, 2003
“Serving Whiteness: Racialized Domestic Service in the French Colonial World,”
American History Association, Chicago, Illinois
October, 2002
The Bali Bombing: Terrorism in Indonesia and Muslim Southeast Asia, Radio
Interview, “Talk of the Bay,” KUSP (Santa Cruz NPR Affiliate)
October, 2002
“Doumer’s Delusions of Grandeur: Race, Power, and Culture in the Creation of Hanoi
as a French Imperial Capital,” Western Society for French History, Baltimore,
Maryland
May, 2002
“Rats, Rice, and History: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt of 1902,” French Colonial Historical
Society, New Haven, Connecticut
Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
May, 2002
Panel Commentator, French Colonial Historical Society, New Haven, Connecticut
April, 2002
“French Colonial Tourism in Indochina,” Commentator, French Historical Society,
Toronto, Canada
November, 2001
“Leisure, Power, Film, and French Indochina,” Commentator, Western Society for French
History, Indianapolis, Indiana
March, 2001
“Teaching the French Colonial Period of Vietnamese History,” “Roundtable: Rethinking
French Colonial History,” Society for French Historical Studies, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina
June, 2000
“The American Colonization of Hawaii,” guest lecture, Stevenson College Core Course,
University of California, Santa Cruz
May, 2000
“Gender in the Colonial World,” guest lecture, University of California, Santa Cruz
April, 2000
“To Live and Die in Hanoi: Health, Disease, and Death in the Colonial City,” workshop
presentation, French Culture and History Workshop, Stanford University
December, 1999
“The People and Cultures of Southeast Asia,” guest lecture, Mission Hill Middle School,
Santa Cruz
November, 1999
“Brawl in the Family: The Inherent Dysfucntionality of Colonial Republicanism as seen in
the History of the Hanoi Municipal Council,” Western Society for French History,
Monterey, California
August, 1999
“Fear and Loathing in the Tropics: The Violence of Everyday Life in Colonial Vietnam,”
American Historical Association – Pacific Branch, Ka’anapali, Maui
June, 1999
“How Ya’ Gonna Keep them Down on the Rice Field Once They’ve Seen Paris?: The
Post World War One Crisis of Returning Native Soldiers and Laborers to Colonial
Indochine,” French Colonial Historical Society, New Orleans
February, 1999
“The Yellow Peril and Other French Racial Fears,” guest lecture, University of
California, Davis
May, 1998
“Domesticating the Natives: Servants in Colonial Indochine,” French Colonial Historical
Society, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
May, 1998
“Domesticating the Natives: Servants in Colonial Indochine,” Modernities' Histories in
Global Perspective: Colonialism, Memory and Modernity Conference/Workshop,
University of California, Santa Cruz
April, 1998
“The Culture of Whiteness in French Hanoi,” presentation at the UCSC History
Department colloquium.
October, 1997
“The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly: Variation and Difference in French Racial Thinking in
Colonial Indochine,” Western Society for French History, Saskatoon, Canada
Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
September, 1997
“‘All the World’s a Stage’, Especially in the Colonies: The Hanoi Exposition of 1902,”
Conference on Propaganda and Empire: French Popular Imperialism, Institut Français,
London
January, 1997
“The Birth, Life, and Death of French Hanoi,” American Historical Association, New York
November, 1996
“Longing and Belonging: The French Identification with Hanoi, 1918-1939,” American
Anthropological Association, San Francisco
April, 1994
“Contesting Culture and Defying Dependency: Hawaiian Nationalist and Haole AntiNationalist Discourse in the 1880's,” Conference on Revisioning Culture: Transforming
Academic Theory and Practice, University of California, Santa Cruz
Teaching Fields:
World History
Western Civilization, European History, French History
Southeast Asian and Vietnamese History
History of Colonialism and Imperialism
Genocide in World History
Film and History
Professional Service:
2014
Organizer/Local Arrangements, French Colonial Historical Society meeting in Siem Reap,
Cambodia
2013Advisory Board, California History-Social Science Project
2010-2014
Reader, AP World History Exam
2010-2013
Council Member, Western Society for French History
2010-1012
Immediate Past President, French Colonial Historical Society
2009-2011
Academic Coordinator, History Project-UC Davis
2009Vice President, California World History Association
2008-2010
President, French Colonial Historical Society
2008Book Manuscript Review for University of Chicago Press
2008Book Manuscript Review for Westview Press
2006Article Manuscript Review for French Colonial History
2006-2008
Vice President, French Colonial Historical Society
2006
Teaching Using Technology Institute, Sac Sate
2004Book Manuscript Review for University of Nebraska Press
2004List Editor for H-French Colonial
2003
Book reviewer for History Compass, an on-line journal
2003-2004
Co-Chair of Program Committee, French Colonial History Society
2003
Article Manuscript Review for the Social History of Alcohol Review
2001-2002
Article Manuscript Review for the American Historical Review
2001-2002
AHA Annual Meeting Local Arrangements Committee
1998-1999
Webpage Development Committee, History Dept., UCSC
Community Service:
2010-2012
Self Defense/Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Instructor, University of California, Santa Cruz
2008Self Defense/Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Instructor, Kaijin Mixed Martial Arts, Santa Cruz
2002Volunteer for the Ride a Wave Foundation, a group that provides a day of beach
recreation for developmentally disabled, physically disabled, and economically disabled
children and young adults
Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Sacramento Sate University
1999-2003
Self Defense Instructor/Muay Thai, Toadal Fitness Santa Cruz, a French/English bilingual
gym
Professional Associations:
American Historical Association
Society for French Historical Studies
Western Society for French History
French Colonial History Society
World History Association
California World History Association
Vietnam, Indochina, France Research Group
Languages:
French
Bahasa Indonesia (conversational)
Undergraduate course work and/or private tutoring in Spanish, Vietnamese, and Russian