Christopher Goscha
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| Title | Regular professor at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) |
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Christopher E. Goscha (born 1965) is an American-Canadian historian specializing in the history of the Cold War in Asia, decolonization, and the wars for Vietnam. He teaches the history of international relations, the Vietnam Wars, and World History at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 2019. [1]
Biography
Christopher Goscha was born in 1965 in the United States. Since 2005, he lives and works in Canada where he is a Canadian citizen.
In 1987, he received his undergraduate degree at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., United States. In 1992, he obtained his Master's degree in Southeast Asian history at the Australian National University in Canberra. He obtained a second Master's degree in 1994 in France at the Université de Paris VII.
He spent several years in Thailand and Vietnam where he studied Thai and Vietnamese.
In 2000, he defended his Phd at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (IV Section, Historical and Philological Sciences). His thesis, entitled "The Asian Context of the Franco-Vietnamese War: Networks, Relations and Economy (1945-1954)", examined the Indochina War from a transnational perspective.
Teaching and research
He joined the History Department at UQÀM in 2005 where he teaches the history of international relations, the Vietnam War, and World History.
His main research topics and courses focus on :
The Wars for Vietnam, The History of International Relations, the Cold War, World History, and comparative decolonization. [2]
Since 1995, he has published and edited a dozen books. In 2012, his Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945-1954): an International and Interdisciplinary Approach was included in the prestigious list of Outstanding Academic Titles 2012 compiled by the American magazine Choice.[3] This first thematic multidisciplinary dictionary on the Indochina War is now online at the Université du Québec à Montréal at www.indochine.uqam.ca
In his book Going Indochinese : Contesting Concepts of Space and Place in French Indochina, (University of Hawa’ii Press, 2012). he questions the concept of French Indochina by analyzing the interactions among Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians and shows how a range of Vietnamese nationalists imagined the future of their nation in Indochinese terms. .
He published in 2016, The Penguin History of Vietnam (Penguin/Random House, 2016), Vietnam, A New History (Basic Books, 2016, American version of the preceding book). This history of Vietnam was the winner of the 2017 John K. Fairbank Prize – American Historical Association, and finalist for the Cundhill History Prize.[4]
Selected works
- Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution (1885-1954), Richmond : Curzon Press, 1999.
- La guerre du Vietnam et l'Europe (1963-1973)= The Vietnam War and Europe (1963-1973), Bruxelles, Paris : Bruylant, L.G.D.J., 2003, with Maurice Vaïsse.
- Contesting Visions of the Lao Past. Lao Historiography at the Crossroads, Copenhague, Londres : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies / Taylor & Francis, 2003, with Søren Ivarsson (eds).
- Le Viêt Nam depuis 1945 : naissance d'un Etat-Parti = Vietnam since 1945 : The birth of a Party-State, Paris : Les Indes Savantes, 2004, with Benoît de Tréglodé.
- L'espace d'un regard : l'Asie de Paul Mus (1902-1969) = L'espace d'un regard: the Asia of Paul Mus (1902-1969), Paris : Les Indes Savantes, 2006, with David Chandler.
- Connecting Histories. Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945-1962, Washington D.C., Stanford : Woodrow Wilson Center / Stanford University Press, 2009, with Christian F. Ostermann.
- L'échec de la paix en Indochine, 1954-1962 = The failure of peace in Indochina, 1954-1962, Paris : Les Indes Savantes, 2010, with Karine Laplante (eds).
- Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War : An International and Interdisciplinary Approach (1945-1954), Honolulu, Copenhague : University of Hawaii Press / Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2011 and 2012.
- Vietnam, un Etat né de la guerre, 1945-1954 = Vietnam, a state born of war, 1945-1954, Paris : Armand Colin, 2011, translated from english by Agathe Larcher-Goscha.
- Going Indochinese : Contesting Concepts of Space and Place in French Indochina, 1885-1945, Copenhague : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, NIAS Classic series no. 3, 2012.
- The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, Londres, Penguin Books, 2016.
- Vietnam, a New History, New York, Basic Books, 2016.
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