Biography

George Dutton is professor of Vietnamese History and Southeast Asian Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Culture at UCLA, where he has also served as Director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. He is the author of several books on Vietnamese history, including The Tay Son Uprising: Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam (University of Hawaii Press, 2006) and A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism (UC Press, 2016). He also edited Voices of Southeast Asia: Essential Readings from Antiquity to the Present (ME Sharpe, 2014) and co-edited (with John Whitmore and Jayne Werner) Sources of Vietnamese Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2012). He has, additionally, written numerous academic articles and book chapters on topics ranging from 1930s Vietnamese caricatures of modernity to Tay Son era poetry to an examination of the Vietnamese genocide against the Chams in the late fifteenth century. He has been active in the AAS, serving on the Southeast Asia Council and the Program Committee. He is a founding member and former steering committee chair of the GETSEA network (Graduate Education and Training on Southeast Asia), a Luce Foundation-funded project.