Michael G. Vann

Michael G. Vann (born June 19, 1967) is an American historian who serves as Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. He specializes in the history of the French colonial empire. Vann holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was a student of Tyler Stovall and Edmund Burke III. His dissertation was on the history of white supremacy in French colonial Hanoi. He is a graduate of 'Iolani School in Honolulu, Hawai'i, his home town.

Accomplishments

Vann has won three Fulbright awards, one for doctoral research in France, 1994-1995, and a Senior Scholar award to Indonesia, 2012-2013, and a third as a Senior Scholar in Cambodia where he taught history and did research on representations of Cold War era mass violence in Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Indonesian museums. In Indonesia he was a visiting scholar for the History and American Studies departments at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Java.

He was President of the French Colonial Historical Society from 2008 to 2010. He is a member of a post-1999 wave of historians who adopted a new critical approach to this history of France and its colonial empire.

Vann has published three books: The Colonial Good Life: André Joyeux's Vision of French Indochina,[1] 20th Century Voices: Selected Readings in World History,[2] and The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam. [3] Vann was featured on public radio's Freakonomics, speaking about how his research on rat hunting in colonial Hanoi related to the economic concept "perverse incentive".[4] He was interviewed about French colonialism on KUSP's 7th Avenue Project.[5]

He has also published articles on Indonesian history and politics, including the Cebongan Prison raid, 2013,[6] and Lawang Sewu, a Dutch era haunted house in Semarang.[7]

Athletic achievements

Hailing from O'ahu, Hawai'i, Vann is an accomplished surfer who frequently travels to Indonesia. He holds a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He has taught Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Santa Cruz, California for Claudio França BJJ, Kaijin MMA, and Garth Taylor Jiu Jitsu. He also taught Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at Hanoi BJJ in Vietnam and Kingdom Fight Gym in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

References
  1. Michael G. Vann (2008-12-01). The Colonial Good Life: Commentary on Andre Joyeux's Vision of French Indochina (English and French Edition): Michael G. Vann, Joel Montague, Andre Joyeux: 9789744801425: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN 978-9744801425.
  2. Vann, Michael (2013). Twentieth Century Voices: Selected Readings in World History (Revised ed.). ISBN 978-1-62131-232-1.
  3. {{cite web|author=Michael G. Vann and Liz Clarke|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-great-hanoi-rat-hunt-9780190602697?lang=en&cc=us |title=The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam: Michael G. Vann, Liz Clarke: 9780190602697: |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2018-06-01
  4. Dubner, Stephen. "The Cobra Effect: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast". Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  5. "Show for Sept. 9, 2012. Our Man in Hanoi:... - The 7th Avenue Project: Thinking Persons' Radio". The 7th Avenue Project. 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  6. Vann, Michael. "Shadow Puppets and Special Forces: Indonesia's Fragile Democracy". The Dipolmat. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  7. Vann, Michael. "Haunted house, haunted history". Inside Indonesia. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
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