PhD, Cornell University
BA, Tufts University
Research Interests
Peter Zinoman is Chairman of the History Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 (2001) and Vietnamese Colonial Republican: The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung (2014). He is also the co-translator of Dumb Luck: A Novel by Vu Trong Phung (2002) and the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. His current book project explores politics and intellectual life in Hanoi during the 1950s.
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