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Geoffrey C. Stewart
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Western University
EDUCATION
PhD in History, University of Western Ontario, 2010
MA in History, University of Toronto, 2002
BSc in Kinesiology, Dalhousie University, 1997
WORK EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Western University, 2010-2013
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Toronto, History 377F: Twentieth Century US
Foreign Relations and History 271Y: American History since 1607, 2009-2010
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Western Ontario, History 2131A/B: The
Presidency in American History, 2008-2009
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, Political Science 458:
Vietnam and the American Empire, 2005-2008
PUBLICATIONS – PEER REVIEWED
Geoffrey C. Stewart, “Hearts, Minds and Công Dân Vụ: The Special Commissariat for Civic
Action and Nation-Building in Diệm’s Vietnam, 1955–1957,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies
6(3) (Fall 2011), 44-100
Geoffrey Stewart, “Winning the Local ‘Hearts and Minds’: Modernization through Civic Action
in South Vietnam,” in Beyond Boundaries: Southeast Asian Studies in the 21st Century, ed.
Steve Déry, Les Documents du Groupe d’Études et de Recherces sur l’Asie Comporaine
(GÉRAC), No. 14 (Quebec City: GÉRAC, 2009), 80-88
PUBLICATIONS
Geoffrey C. Stewart, “Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.: An American Proconsul in Diem’s Vietnam,” in
Diplomats at War: The American Experience, eds. Andrew Stewart and J. Simon Rofe
(Dodrecht, ND: Republic of Letters Publishing, forthcoming 2012)
Geoffrey C. Stewart, “Researching Asia in Canada,” Canadian Historical Association Bulletin
(Spring, 2010), 3-4
Geoffrey C. Stewart, “The Cold War: The Nonaligned States (since 1955),” in Weapons and
Warfare rev. ed., ed. John Powell (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010), 765-770
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Geoffrey C. Stewart, “Conducting Archival Research in Hồ Chí Minh City: Some Personal
Observations,” Canadian Council of Southeast Asian Studies Newsletter (Spring 2008), 8
Geoffrey C. Stewart, “My Lai Massacre,” in The Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and
Internment 2d ed., ed. Jonathan F. Vance (Millerton, N.Y.: Grey House Publishing, 2006), 276277
BOOK REVIEWS
Geoffrey C. Stewart, “American Caesars: Lives of the U.S. Presidents from Franklin D.
Roosevelt to George W. Bush,” The Journal of Historical Biography 9 (Spring 2011), 146-149
Geoffrey C. Stewart, “The William Howard Taft Presidency,” Northwest Ohio History 78(1)
(Fall 2010), 64-66
WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES – INVITED
“The Origins of the Cold War,” invited lecture at Queensborough Community College, Queens,
NY, May 2012
“Revolution, Nation Building and the Origins of the Special Commissariat for Civic Action in
Diệm’s Vietnam,” “Revisiting the First Republic of Vietnam: Nationalism, Nation-building and
Modernization in Ngô Đình Diệm’s South Vietnam, 1954-1963” workshop, Harvard University,
April 2010
“Making the ‘Personal’ Political: Modernization and Civic Action in the Republic of Việt Nam,
1955-1963,” “Beyond Dichotomies: alternative voices and histories in post-colonial Viet Nam”
workshop, University of Washington, May 2008
“Việt Nam Between Decolonization and the Cold War,” invited lecture at Mount Saint Vincent
University, Halifax, NS, February 2008
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES
“America and the First Republic of Vietnam: A Transatlantic Perspective,” annual conference of
the Transatlantic Studies Association, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, July 2012
“The Struggle for the Countryside” panel co-moderator, “Voices from the South: New
Testimonies from the Last Leaders of South Vietnam,” interdisciplinary symposium on the
Republic of Vietnam, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 2012
“Civic Action, Revolution and Nation-Building in Ngô Đình Diệm’s Vietnam: 1957-1961,”
annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, March 2012
“Henry Cabot Lodge as High Commissioner: A Renewed Appraisal of America's Ambassador to
Ngo Dinh Diem's Vietnam,” conference of the Canadian Association for American Studies,
Carleton University, November 2011
“The Pernicious Plenipotentiary: Re-examining Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. in Ngo Dinh Diem’s
Vietnam,” annual conference of the Transatlantic Studies Association, Dundee University,
Dundee, Scotland, July 2011
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“Community Development, Revolution and Nation-Building in Diem’s Vietnam: Civic Action,
1957-1960,” History Department Seminar Series, University of Western Ontario, March 2011
“Community Development, Modernization and Exceptionalism in South Vietnam, 1957-1963,”
conference on The American Experience in Southeast Asia, 1945-1975, the State Department,
Washington, DC, September 2010
“Arrested Development: Community Development and Nation-Building in the Republic of
Vietnam during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years,” annual conference of the Society for
Historians of Foreign Relations, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, June 2010
“Countering Crisis: The American Social Sciences, Nation-Building and Civic Action in South
Vietnam,” annual conference of the Canadian Association of American Studies, University of
Western Ontario, November 2009
“Between the Cold War and Decolonization: The First Republic of Vietnam and the ‘Bandung
Spirit,’” biennial conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, University of
British Columbia, October 2009
“Civic Action, Revolution and Nation-Building in the Republic of Vietnam: 1955-1963,” annual
conference of the Canadian Historical Association, Carleton University, May 2009
“Confronting Global Forces at the Local Level: Personalism, Nation-Building and Civic Action
in the Republic of Vietnam,” conference on “World History and Materialism,” University of
Manitoba, March 2009
“Nation-Building and Civic Action in the Republic of Vietnam,” biennial conference of the
Canadian Asian Studies Association, University of Waterloo, November 2008
“To Move Whose Nation? American and South Vietnamese Conceptions of Nation-Building
through Civic Action, 1961-1963,” annual conference of the Society for Historians of Foreign
Relations, Ohio State University, June 2008
“Modernization and Civic Action in South Vietnam, 1955-1963,” Bruce McCaffery Memorial
Graduate Seminar, University of Western Ontario, April 2008
“Winning the Local ‘Hearts and Minds’: Modernization through Civic Action in South
Vietnam,” biennial conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, Laval
University, October 2007
“Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Modernization in Post-colonial Vietnam,” Bruce
McCaffery Memorial Graduate Seminar, University of Western Ontario, November 2006
“Toward an Understanding of Competing South Vietnamese and American Conceptions of
Modernization in Diem’s Vietnam,” biennial conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast
Asian Studies, York University, October 2005
“Soldiers From Defeat Returning: The Vietnam Veteran and the National Myth in
Australia and the United States,” annual conference of the Canadian Historical Association,
University of Western Ontario, May-June 2005
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“Malice and Misperception: the Flawed Agenda of David Halberstam and Roger Hilsman,”
annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, University of
Texas at Austin, June 2004
“David Halberstam, Roger Hilsman and the August 24 Cable,” conference on “The Rise and Fall
of Ngo Dinh Diem: Its Implications for the United States and Vietnam,” The Vietnam Center,
Texas Tech University, October 2003
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Grant from the Agnes Cole Dark Fund to Promote the Humanities and World Peace, 2012
Two Social Science and Humanities Research Council Internal Conference Travel Grants, 2011
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Travel Grant, 2007
Prize for Outstanding Student Paper for “Winning the Local ‘Hearts and Minds’: Modernization
through Civic Action in South Vietnam,” by the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies,
2007
John F. Kennedy Library Research Grant, 2007
University of Western Ontario Graduate Thesis Research Award, 2006, 2007
Ley and Lois Smith Scholarship from the University of Western Ontario, 2005, 2006
Tuition Fellowship from the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute for the study of the
Vietnamese language at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2005, 2006
Graduate Student Teaching Award from the University of Western Ontario, 2005
University Fellowship from the University of Toronto, 2000
COURSES TAUGHT
Western University
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The United States, Colonial Period to the Present (Lecture)
The Vietnam Wars: Between Decolonization and the Cold War (Seminar)
Global America (Seminar)
Global History of International Relations since the Peace of Westphalia (Lecture)
The Presidency in American History (Lecture)
Canada, the United States and Mexico: Comparative History of the North American
Nations (Lecture, United States portion)
The Cold War (Seminar)
Vietnam and the American Empire (Seminar, Department of Political Science)
The University of Toronto
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Twentieth Century American Foreign Relations (Lecture)
American History Since 1607 (Lecture, Post-Civil War portion)
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GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
Joel Richer, (MA Candidate, Western University), 2012, “The French Deception: How France
Pulled America into Vietnam” (Supervisor)
James Goodall, (MA Candidate, Western University), 2012, “The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and
Escalation in Vietnam” (Cognate Reader, Robert MacDougall, Western University Supervisor)
John Livingstone, (MA Candidate, Western University), 2012, “Relieve Vicksburg or Seek a
‘Battle of Annihilation’? An Evaluation of Robert Edward Lee’s Strategic Vision in the Summer
of 1863?” (Cognate Reader, Craig Simpson, Western University, Supervisor)
Oliver Charbonneau, (Doctoral Candidate, Western University), 2012, “American Empire in
Moro Province” (Dissertation Proposal Committee Member; Frank Schumacher, Western
University, Supervisor)
LANGUAGES
Reading proficiency in French and Vietnamese
SERVICE
Co-editor of the Canadian Asian Studies Association Bulletin, 2010
Co-editor of the Canadian Council of Southeast Asian Studies Newsletter, 2007-2009
Member of the Executive of the Canadian Council of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007-2009
Graduate Student Representative to the History Department’s Hiring Committee, The University
of Western Ontario, 2003-2004
MEMBERSHIPS
Association for Asian Studies
Canadian Association of American Studies
Canadian Council of Southeast Asian Studies
Canadian Asian Studies Association
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Transatlantic Studies Association
World History Association
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