Kevin Li

PhD Candidate

Southeast Asia


Research Interests

  • Modern Vietnam
  • nationalism
  • decolonization
  • crime and criminality
  • banditry

Awards & Fellowships

Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship

MacMillan Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Yale University

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship

George Lurcy Fellowship (declined)

Pacific Rim Mini-Grant, University of California

John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies

Foreign Language and Area Studies (Summer 2009, AY 2010-11)


Publications & Presentations

Partisan to Sovereign: The Making of the Bình Xuyên in Southern Vietnam, 1945-1948," Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 11(3-4)