Christoph Giebel

Christoph Giebel is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies and Department of History. His work focuses on 20th-century Vietnam, comparative colonialism, and memory studies.

• Education: Ph.D. and M.A. in Southeast Asian History from Cornell University, M.A. in Asian Studies from Cornell, and studies at University of Hamburg, National University of Vietnam, Fu Jen-University (Taiwan), and Eberhard Karls-University (Germany).

Research Interests include:

• Colonial and imperial histories (French/US in Southeast Asia)
• Spatial representations of war, particularly the Vietnam Wars
• Intersections of historiography, memory, and justice

Publications highlight his work on Vietnamese communism, memory politics, and local historical narratives. His 2004 book Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism remains influential.

Awards:

• Finalist for annual global engagement award