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David Hunt Resume January 2009
Address:
History Department
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston, MA 02125
david.hunt@umb.edu
Born:
March 1, 1942, Buffalo, NY
Education:
PhD., Harvard University, 1969
B.A., Haverford College, 1963
Employment:
Professor, UMass/Boston, 1994-present
Associate Professor, UMB, 1975-1994
Assistant Professor, UMB, 1969-1975
Research interests:
Vietnam War and 20th-century Vietnam; peasants and revolutions; French Revolution and French social history; politics and culture.
Books:
Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War (Amherst: UMass Press, 2008).
Villagers at War: The National Liberation Front in My Tho Province, 1965-1967, in Radical America 8 (January-April 1974), 3-183.
Parents and Children in History: The Psychology of Family Life in Early Modern France (New York: Basic Books, 1970). A paperback edition was published by Harper & Row in 1972.
Books, edited:
Jayne Werner and David Hunt, eds., The American War in Vietnam (Ithaca: Southeast Asia Publications/Cornell University, 1993).
Books, translated:
Le Luu, A Time Far Past, Nguyen Ba Chung, Ngo Vinh Hai, Kevin Bowen, and David Hunt, trans. (Amherst: UMass Press, 1997).
Work in Progress:
Ethnography of Revolution: A Social History of the Vietnam War.
Prizes, Grants, Awards:
UMB Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, 2002.
UMass/Boston Professional Development Grant, research on social history of Vietnam War, 1997.
Social Science Research Council Grant, research on the “Return of the Festival,” 1991.
UMB Provost travel money, research trip to Vietnam, 1991.
UMB College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, 1986.
William Joiner Center Research Grant, travel money, educators’ delegation to Vietnam, 1985.
Social Science Research Council, post-doctoral study, Social Relations Department, Harvard, 1968-1969.
Fulbright, graduate study in Paris, 1966-1967.
Woodrow Wilson, graduate study at Harvard, 1963-1964.
Phi Beta Kappa, Haverford 1963.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Taking Notice of the Everyday,” in Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives, ed. Mark Bradley and Marilyn Young (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 171-197.
“Revolution in the Delta,” Critical Asian Studies 35/4 (2003), 599-620.
“The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split,” in A Companion to the Vietnam War, ed. Robert Buzzanco and Marilyn Young (Malden MA: Blackwell, 2002), 79-92.
“Washington Quagmire: U.S. Presidents and the Vietnam War,” in A Companion to Post-1945 America, ed. Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002), 464-478.
“The Gift of Food: The Provisioning of Troops During the American War,” Journal of the Historical Society 2/2 (2002), 125-143.
“Grunts and Historians: Recent Representations of Vietnam Veterans,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 32/4 (2000), 61-70.
“War Crimes and the Vietnamese People: American Representations and Silences,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 30/2 (1998), 72-82; reprinted in Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States, ed. Laura Hein and Mark Selden (Armonk: Sharpe, 2000), 173-200; translated and reprinted under the title “Crimini di guerra e popolo vietnamita: Rappresentazioni e silenzi americani,” in Italia contemporanea 216 (1999), 497-512.
“Introduction” to Le Luu, A Time Far Past (Amherst: UMass Press, 1997), vii-xviii.
“Images of the Viet Cong,” In Robert Slabey, ed., The United States and Viet Nam: From War to Peace (New York: McFarland, 1996), 51-63.
“Prefigurations of the Vietnamese Revolution,” in Rayna Rapp and Jane Schenider, eds., Articulating Hidden Histories: Anthropology, History and the Influence of Eric R. Wolf (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 108-121.
“U.S. Scholarship and the National Liberation Front,” in The American War in Vietnam, ed. Jayne Werner and David Hunt (Ithaca: Southeast Asia Publications/Cornell University, 1993), 93-108.
“The Anti-War Movement after the War,” in The Vietnam War: Vietnamese and American Perspectives, ed. Jayne Werner and Luu Doan Huynh (New York: Sharpe, 1993), 258-270.
“Peasant Routes in France and Vietnam,” Peasant Studies 17 (1990), 141-149.
“The Measure of Popular Culture,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 3451 (1989), 363-371.
“From the Millennial to the Everyday: James Scott’s Search for the Essence of Peasant Politics,” Radical History Review 42 (1988), 155-172.
“Peasant Movements and Communal Property During the French Revolution,” Theory and Society 17 (1988), 255-283.
“History as Indoctrination: A Critique of Palmer and Colton’s A History of the Modern World,” The History Teacher 21 (1987), 53-103 (co-authored with Linda Gordon and Peter Weiler).
“Freedom and Illusion in Vietnam,” Radical America 20 (March-May 1986), 52-62.
“Working People of France and their Historians,” Radical History Review 28-30 (1984), 45-65.
“Peasant Politics in the French Revolution,” Social History 9 (1984), 277-299; translated and reprinted in E.P. Thompson et al., La guerre du blé au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Editions de la Passion, 1988), 2205-232.
“Theda Skocpol and the Peasant Route,” Socialist Review 70 (1983), 121-144.
“Village Culture and the Vietnamese Revolution,” Past & Present 94 (1982), 131-157.
“The People and Pierre Dolivier: Popular Uprisings in the Seine-et-Oise Department, 1791-1792,” French Historical Studies 11 (1979), 184-214.
“Popular Uprisings and the Origins of Socialism in France,” Socialist Review 40-41 (1978), 221-239.
“Remembering the Tet Offensive,” Radical America 11-12 (winter 1977-1978), 79-96; reprinted in Vietnam and America: A Documented History, ed. Marvin Gettleman (New York: Grove Press, 1985, 1995).
Book reviews:
Gareth Porter, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), in Journal of Vietnamese Studies 2/1(2007), 190-192.
Charles Neu, America’s Lost War: Vietnam 1945-1975 (Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2005), in Journal of Military History 70 (2006), 278-279.
Christoph Giebel, Imagined Ancestors of Vietnamese communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory (2004) in Journal of Asian Studies 65 (2006) 225-227.
Shawn McHale, Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam (2004), in Journal of Asian Studies 64 (2005), 799-800.
Hue-Tam Ho Tai, The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (2001), in Journal of Asian Studies 63 (2004), 856-858.
Jane Bradley Winston and Leakthina Chau-Prech Ollier, eds., Of Vietnam: [Identities in Dialogue] (2001), in Journal of Asian Studies 62 (2003), 1349-1350.
“The Legend of Uncle Ho,” a review of William Duiker, Ho Chi Minh (2000), in Radical Historians Newsletter 83 (2000).
Karen Turner, Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam (1998), in Manoa 12:1 (2000), 258-260.
The Tet Offensive, ed. Marc Gilbert and William Head (1996), in Journal of Asian Studies 57 (1998), 602-605.
Timothy Lomperis, From People’s War to People’s Rule: Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam (1996), in Journal of Asian Studies 56 (1997), 855-856.
“Gabriel Kolko and the Mainstream in the United States and Vietnam,” a review of Kolko, Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States and the Modern Historical Experience (1994), in Science & Society 61 (1997), 402-407.
Robert Buzzanco, Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996), in International History Review 19 (1997), 981-983.
Pierre Brocheux, The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860-1960 (1995), in Journal of Asian Studies 55 (1996), 779-781.
William Duiker, Sacred War: Nationalism and revolution in a Divided Vietnam (1995), in American Historical Review 101 (1996), 545-546.
John Murphy, Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia’s Vietnam War (1994), in Journal of Asian Studies 54 (1995), 260-262.
Martha Hess, Then the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam (1993), In Journal of Asian Studies 54 (1995), 626-628.
Gareth Porter, Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism, in Journal of Asian Studies 53 (1994), 646-648.
“Addressing a Hidden History: Bruce Cumings on the Korean War,” a review of Cumings, Origins of the Korean War, 2 vols., in Radical Historians Newsletter 70 (1994).
P.M. Jones, The Peasantry in the French Revolution (1988), in Agricultural History 64 (1990), 101-102.
Melanie Beresford, Vietnam: Politics, Economics and Society (1988), in Development and Change 21/3 (1990), 540-541.
David Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic, in Book World, August 22, 1971.
“Homage to a Freudian,” a review of Robert Coles, Erik H. Erikson: The Growth of his Work, in Book World, December 13, 1970.
Movie reviews:
“The ‘Red Princess’ Wins an Oscar,” a review of “Indochine,” in Radical Historians Newsletter 68 (1993).
“Andrzej Wajda and the ‘Reign of the People,’” a review of Wajda’s “Danton,” in Radical History Review 29 (1984).
Presentations:
“The Disposable Strategy: Counter-Insurgency in Vietnam,” at a conference on “Reconsidering Counterinsurgency,” Santa Fe Institute, March 22, 2008.
“Taking Notice of the Everyday,” at a conference on “Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars,” University of Kentucky, October 11, 2007.
“Vietnam 1960: The Peasant Revolt That Began the War,” Symposium on “French Social History: Intersections and New Directions,” Emory University, April 24, 2007.
“Mekong Delta Views of the United States,” Popular Culture Association Convention, Boston, April 6,2007.
“The Chieu Hoi Program: Saigon’s ‘Ellis Island,’” American Historical Association Conference, Philadelphia, January 6, 2006.
“Soldiers of the National Liberation Front,” History Society Annual Conference, Boston University, June 2, 2000.
Convener and discussant, panel on “Construction of the Vietnamese Colonial Past,” at Association of Asian Studies Conference, Boston, March 24, 1994.
“Images of the Vietnamese,” at a conference on “the United States and Viet Nam: From War to Peace,” at Notre Dame University, December 2, 1993.
“The Discovery of Alienation in Post-War Vietnam,” Southest Asia Studies Seminar, Yale University, November 20, 1991.
“Prefigurations of the Vietnamese Revolution,” panel on “Social Movements and Ideologies: Papers in Honor of Eric R. Wolf,” American Anthropological Association Convention, New Orleans, December 1, 1990.
“The Anti-War Movement After the War,” panel on “Dissent/ Opposition and U.S. Policy-Making,” conference on “the History of the Vietnam/Indochina War,” Columbia University, November 17, 1990.
“Facing Vietnam,” as part of a series on “Countries Often Overlooked,” Global Education Conference, Schweitzer International Center, Framingham State College, April 25, 1990.
Discussant, panel on “Vietnam and the Tradition of Revolution,” McClellan Symposium on “America, Vietnam, and the War: Policy, Culture, Consequences,” Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, March 3, 1990.
“Peasant Routes in France and Vietnam,” panel on “Communal Property and Peasant Struggles in Vietnam,” American Historical Association Convention, San Francisco, December 28, 1989.
“The Debate Over Communal Property in the French Revolution, 1791-1793,” at the French Historical Studies Convention, Los Angeles, March 22, 1985.
Conferences Organized:
History Coordinator, Vietnam Institute, July 22-August 16, 1996, funded by NEH grant, for high school teachers on the history and literature of the Vietnam War.
Coordinator, Vietnam Institute, a three-day conference for high-school teachers, sponsored by the William Joiner Center, UMB, 1993 and 1994.
Co-Coordinator of conference on the Vietnam/American War, organized by Vietnam Institute of Military History, Social Sciences Commission, and International Relations Institute, and, the Samuel Rubin Foundation and the William Joiner Center, Hanoi, November 25-27, 1988.
Organizing Committee, Second Annual New England Regional Conference on Radical Approaches to History, May 1973.
Administrative Positions:
Associate Director, Honors Program, UMass/Boston, 1999-2003.
Co-Director, William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, UMass/Boston, 1986-1993.
Editor, Vietnam Studies Bulletin, 1990-1994.
Board of Directors, William Joiner Foundation, 1989-1993.
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