Peter B. Zinoman

Associate Professor

Contact

Office: 2313 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: Monday 1:30-4pm
Phone: (510) 642-2234
Email: pzinoman@berkeley.edu

Education

PhD, Cornell University
BA, Tufts University

Academic Awards and Honors

Association of Asian Studies Harry J. Benda Prize for Southeast Asia Studies (2003)

American Historical Association John King Fairbank Award for East Asian History (2001)

Professional Service

Co-Editor, Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2005-present)

Chair, Center for Southeast Asia Studies (2003-present)

Co-director, UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project (2003-present)

Resident Director, UC Education Abroad Program, Vietnam (2001)

Selected Publications

Editor/annotator/translator, Dumb Luck: A Novel by Vu Trong Phung (University of Michigan Press, 2002), includes Introduction, "Vu Trong Phung's Dumb Luck and the Nature of Vietnamese Modernism"

The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).

"Reading Revolutionary Prison Memoirs," in The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam, Hue Tam Ho Tai, ed. (University of California Press, 2001).

"Colonial Prisons and Anti-Colonial Revolt: The Thai Nguyen Rebellion, 1917", Modern Asian Studies, 34:1 (2000).

"The History of the Colonial Prison and the Case of Indochina," in Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines and Colonial Vietnam, Vicente Rafael, ed. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1999).

"Declassifying Nguyen Huy Thiep" in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995).