Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Position: Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-vietnamese HistoryField: East AsiaSpecialty: Social and cultural history of modern VietnamCurrent InterestsPublic memory and public history; the famine of 1945 in northern Vietnam as experience and memory; telling lives: biography and autobiography.Selected Publications*"Remembered Realms: Pierre Nora and French National Memory" in The American Historical Review(2001)* The Country of Memory:Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (2001)* "Representing the Past in Vietnamese Museums" in Curator (1998)* "Monumental Ambiguity: the State Commemoration of Ho Chi Minh" in Essays into Vietnamese Pasts (1995)* Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution (1992)* Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam (1983)