Peter B. Zinoman

Associate Professor
2313 Dwinelle
(510) 642-2234
pzinoman@berkeley.edu
Education: 

PhD, Cornell University
BA, Tufts University

Research Interests: 

Southeast Asian History: Vietnam

Profile: 

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)

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

Chair, Center for Southeast Asia Studies (2003-2008)

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

Representative 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).

Courses

Semester Course Title Syllabus
Spring 2012 280/285F.001 Asia
Fall 2012 111A Southeast Asia to the 18th Century
Fall 2012 280/285F.004 Asia
Spring 2012 100.003 Vietnam at War
Fall 2011 111B Modern Southeast Asia