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1. Summary

• Liam C. Kelley, PhD

• Associate Professor of Southeast Asian History/Studies, Asian History, World History, Digital Humanities

• Email: liam@hawaii.edu

• 1993—2001  University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Southeast Asian, Chinese, and World History, MA and PhD

• 1985—1989  Dartmouth College, Russian Language and Literature, BA

• 2018—2024  Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

• 2005—2018  Tenured Associate Professor of Southeast Asian History, Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

• 2001—2005  Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian History, Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

• Co-Organizer: Engaging with Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference series (www.engagingwithvietnam.org)

• Founding Co-editor and Co-editor-in-chief, Global Vietnam journal (Amsterdam University Press), 2025—present (https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/29501903)

• Founding Co-editor and Co-editor-in-chief, Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community book series (Springer Nature), 2023—present (https://www.springer.com/series/17025)

• Co-editor-in-chief, China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies (Brill), 2020—present

English, Chinese (modern and classical), Vietnamese, Thai (conversation), Japanese (conversation), French (reading and conversation), Khmer (weak at this point), Russian (forgotten)

Monograph

Liam C. Kelley, Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005).

Co-edited Volumes

• Liam C. Kelley and Gerard Sasges, eds. Vietnam over the Long Twentieth Century: Becoming Modern, Going Global (Singapore: Springer Global Vietnam Series, forthcoming 2024).

• Jamie Gillen, Liam C. Kelley, and Phan Le Ha, eds., Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community (Singapore: Springer-IAS Asia in Transition Series, 2021).

• Victor Mair and Liam C. Kelley, eds., Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours (Singapore: ISEAS, 2015).

Journal Articles

• Liam C. Kelley, "Rescuing History from Srivijaya: The Fall of Angkor in the Ming Shilu (Part 2)," China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies 6.1 (2024).

• Liam C. Kelley, "Sinology in Vietnam," Journal of Chinese History 7.2 (2022): 1-30.

• Liam C. Kelley, "Rescuing History from Srivijaya: The Fall of Angkor in the Ming Shilu (Part 1)," China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies 4.1 (2022): 38-91.

• Liam C. Kelley, "The Decline of Asian Studies in the West and the Rise of Knowledge Production in Asia: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Mobility, Knowledge Production and Academic Discourses," Research in Comparative and International Education 15.3 (2020): 273-290.

• Liam C. Kelley, "Taxation and Military Conscription in Early Modern Vietnam: Nguyễn Đàng Trong in Comparative Perspective," Journal of Vietnamese Studies Vol. 15.2 (2020): 1-39.

• Liam C. Kelley, "The Centrality of 'Fringe History': Diaspora, the Internet and a New Version of Vietnamese Prehistory," International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 16.1 (2020): 71–104.

• Liam C. Kelley, "From a Reliant Land to a Kingdom in Asia: Premodern Geographic Knowledge and the Emergence of the Geo-Body in Late Imperial Vietnam," Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 5.2 (2016): 460-496.

• Liam C. Kelley, "Moral Exemplar, Our General, Potent Deity, Confucian Moralizer and National Hero: The Transformations of Trần Hưng Đạo," Modern Asian Studies 49.6 (2015): 1963-1993.

• Liam C. Kelley, "Tai Words and the Place of the Tai in the Vietnamese Past," Journal of the Siam Society 101 (2013): 55-84.

• Liam C. Kelley, "The Biography of the Hồng Bàng Clan as a Medieval Vietnamese Invented Tradition," Journal of Vietnamese Studies 7.2 (2012): 87-130.

• Liam C. Kelley, "Vietnam as a 'Domain of Manifest Civility' (Văn Hiến Chi Bang)," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 34.1 (2003): 63-76.

Book Chapters

• Liam C. Kelley, "Two States, One Shared but Evolving Confucian Repertoire," in The Cambridge History of Confucianism, edited by Kiri Paramore (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025).

• Liam C. Kelley, "Memory, Tradition, and the History of 'Vietnam,'" in The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, edited by Edward Miller, 27-42 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).

• Liam C. Kelley, "Tianxia as Anti-cosmopolitan and Proto-racial: A Case Study of Late Imperial Vietnam," in Tianxia in Comparative Perspectives: Alternative Models for a Possible Planetary Order, edited by Roger T. Ames and Sor-hoon Tan, 39-67 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2023).

• Liam C. Kelley, "Betwixt and Between Generational, Areal and Digital Divides: Studying Vietnam and Southeast Asia as a Generation X Sinologist in the Age of Globalization and the Digital Revolution," in Fieldwork and the Self: Changing Research Styles in Southeast Asia, edited by Jérémy Jammes and Victor T. King, 353-380 (Singapore: Springer-IAS "Asia in Transition" Series, 2021).

• Dinh Hong Hai and Liam C. Kelley, "Competing Imagined Ancestries: The Lạc Việt, the Vietnamese, and the Zhuang," in Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community, edited by Jamie Gillen, Liam C. Kelley, and Phan Le Ha, 89-107 (Singapore: Springer-IAS Asia in Transition Series, 2021).

• Liam C. Kelley, "Connecting to Power: Imagined Genealogies in Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia," in The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History: Circulation, Movement, Encounters, edited by May Hawas, 289-297 (London: Routledge, 2018).

• Liam C. Kelley, "Convergence and Conflict: Dai Viet and the Sinic Order," in Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Johanna "Miek" Boltjes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).

• Liam C. Kelley, "Constructing Local Narratives: Spirits: Dreams, and Prophecies in the Medieval Red River Delta," in China's Encounters on the South and Southwest: Forging the Fiery Frontier, edited by James Anderson and John K. Whitmore, 78-105 (Leiden: Brill, 2015).

• Liam C. Kelley, "Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-Century Vietnam," in Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours, edited by Victor Mair and Liam C. Kelley, 161-193 (Singapore: ISEAS, 2015).

(Co-)Edited Special Issues/Sections

• Liam C. Kelley, Catherine Earl, and Jamie Gillen, eds., "Special Section: The Politics of Collective Care: Health, Kinship, and Inequality in Transnational Vietnam," Southeast Asian Studies (forthcoming 2024).

• Liam C. Kelley, Catherine Earl, and Jamie Gillen, eds., "Special Section: Negotiating Globalization and Its Aftermath in Vietnam and ASEAN: Theory, Practice, Representation, and Identity," Suvannabhumi: Multi-disciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 15.2 (2023).

• Phan Le Ha, Rommel A. Curaming, and Liam C. Kelley, eds., "Special Issue: Transnationally-Trained Scholars Working in Global Contexts: Knowledge Production, Identity, Epistemology, and Career Trajectories," Research in Comparative and International Education 15.3 (2020).

• Phan Lê Hà, Liam C. Kelley and Jamie Gillen, eds., "Special Issue: The Collaboration Project between Engaging With Vietnam and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies," Journal of Vietnamese Studies 15.1 (2020).

• John D. Phan and Liam C. Kelley, eds., "Buddhist Literacy in Early Modern Vietnamese Print Culture," Journal of Vietnamese Studies 13.3 (2018).

Introductions to Edited Volumes/Special Issues/Special Sections

• Liam C. Kelley and Gerard Sasges, "Introduction: Documenting Vietnam over the Long Twentieth Century—Becoming Modern, Going Global," in Vietnam over the Long Twentieth Century: Becoming Modern, Going Global, edited by Liam C. Kelley and Gerard Sasges (Singapore: Springer Global Vietnam Series, forthcoming 2024).

• Liam C. Kelley, Catherine Earl, and Jamie Gillen, "Collective Care in Three Vietnamese Contexts: The Intersection of Health, Community, and the State," Southeast Asian Studies (forthcoming 2024).

• Liam C. Kelley, Catherine Earl, and Jamie Gillen, "Negotiating Globalization and its Aftermath in Vietnam and ASEAN: Theory, Practice, Representation, and Identity," Suvannabhumi: Multi-disciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 15.2 (2023): 17-21.

• Liam C. Kelley, Jamie Gillen, and Phan Le Ha, "Introduction," in Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community, edited by Jamie Gillen, Liam C. Kelley, and Phan Le Ha, 1-14 (Singapore: Springer-IAS "Asia in Transition" Series, 2021).

• Phan Le Ha, Liam C. Kelley, and Rommel A. Curaming, "Transnationally-Trained Scholars Working in Global Contexts: Knowledge Production, Identity, Epistemology, and Career Trajectories," Research in Comparative and International Education 15.3 (2020).

• Phan Lê Hà, Liam C. Kelley, and Jamie Gillen, "Introduction: The Collaboration Project between Engaging With Vietnam and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies," Journal of Vietnamese Studies 15.1 (2020): 1-5.

Working Papers

• Liam C. Kelley, "Revisiting the Chinese Sources for Early Southeast Asian History," IAS Working Paper No. 72 (Gadong: Institute of Asian Studies, UBD, 2023).

• Liam C. Kelley, "Stranger-Kings and Strangers in an Asiatic Country: The Ambiguity of Human Relations in Early British North Borneo," IAS Working Paper No. 45 (Gadong: Institute of Asian Studies, UBD, 2018).

Translations

• Translation of the "Outer Annals" of the Complete Book of the Historical Records of Đại Việt, a fifteenth-century Vietnamese chronicle (194 pages of translated text). Published online at Viet Texts (https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/viet-texts/). 2013.

• Translation of the "Prefatory Compilation" of the Imperially Commissioned Itemized Summaries of the Comprehensive Mirror of Việt History, a nineteenth-century Vietnamese chronicle (247 pages of translated text). Published online at Viet Texts (https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/viet-texts/). 2013.

• Translation of the Arrayed Tales of Selected Oddities from South of the Passes (Lĩnh Nam chích quái liệt truyện), a fifteenth-century Vietnamese text. Published online at Viet Texts (https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/viet-texts/). 2013.

• Several short translations in George Dutton, Jane Werner and John K. Whitmore, eds., Sources of Vietnamese Tradition (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012).

Publications in Non-Academic Media

• Liam C. Kelley, "Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands by Bradley Camp Davis," Mekong Review 2.3 (May-July 2017): 19.

• Liam C. Kelley, "The Magic is Gone (Asian Studies in Crisis)," Mekong Review 1.3 (May-July 2016): 12-13.

• Liam C. Kelley, "Good Scholarship, Bold Scholarship and Bad Scholarship: A Conversation with Professor Liam Kelley," Da Màu [Colored Skin], May 11, 2016.

• Liam C. Kelley, "Sử học tốt, sử học táo tợn và sử học tồi: đối thoại với giáo sư Liam Kelley (phần 1)" [Good Scholarship, Bold Scholarship and Bad Scholarship: A Conversation with Professor Liam Kelley (Part 1)], Da Màu [Colored Skin], May 11, 2016.

• Liam C. Kelley, "Sử học tốt, sử học táo tợn và sử học tồi: đối thoại với giáo sư Liam Kelley (phần 2)" [Good Scholarship, Bold Scholarship and Bad Scholarship: A Conversation with Professor Liam Kelley (Part 2)], Da Màu [Colored Skin], May 12, 2016.

Modules Taught at Universiti Brunei Darussalam

• AH-1202 The State and Society in World Civilizations

• AA/AZ-3301 Peoples & Cultures of Southeast Asia

• AH-4303 Southeast Asia: From Subsistence to Industrialization

• AH-4314 Japan & Southeast Asia: World War II & Beyond

Courses Taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

• HIST 151: World History

• HIST 242: Asian Civilizations

• HIST 356: The World of the Mekong

• HIST 406: Researching World War II in Southeast Asia

• HIST 403: Vietnam – History & Memory

• HIST 605: Seminar in Digital History

• HIST 658: Seminar in Modern Southeast Asian History

• HIST 650: Comparative Asia

• HIST 660: Seminar in Vietnamese History

International Conference Organization

Since 2012, I have co-organized an annual conference called "Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue" (EWV) (https://engagingwithvietnam.org/).

The themes and locations of the conferences to date are as follows:

• EWV #15, Main Event: "Knowledge Production, Education, Creative Industries, Vietnam, and the World," forthcoming, 10-13 December 2025, Hà Nội.

• EWV #15, Event #2: "Indochina Stories: Dialogues between Archives, Academia, Memory, and Contemporary Interaction," 21-25 August 2024, Đà Lạt.

• EWV #15, Event #1: "Đông Dương / Indochine / Indochina: Histories, Memories, Reflections, & Contemporary Interactions," 28-31 August 2024, Huế.

• EWV #14: "Living with Heritage, (Re)creating Heritage: Vietnam and the World," 1-6 August 2023, Huế.

• EWV #13: "Knowledge Production in the Age of Metrics and Global Rankings," 23-31 October 2022, Hồ Chí Minh City and Trà Vinh.

• EWV #12: "Engaging with Vietnam and ASEAN: Mobilities and Identities in an Age of Global Transformation," 24-28 August 2021, Kyoto (virtual due to the pandemic).

• EWV #11: "Vietnam in Europe, Europe in Vietnam: Identity, Transnationality and Mobility of People, Ideas and Practices across Time and Space," 15-18 July 2019, Leiden.

• EWV #10: "Beyond Dichotomies: Vietnam from Multiple Perspectives," 15-21 December 2018, Hồ Chí Minh City, Phan Thiết and Bình Thuận.

• EWV #9: "Touring Vietnam: Exploring 'Development,' 'Tourism' and 'Sustainability' from Multidisciplinary and Multi-directional Perspectives," 28 December 2017-4 January 2018, Hồ Chí Minh City, Bình Dương and An Giang.

• EWV #9: "Engaging With Vietnam through Scholarship and the Arts," 4-10 October 2016, Honolulu.

• EWV #7: "Knowledge Journeys and Journeying Knowledge," 7-8 July 2015, Hanoi and Bắc Ninh.

• EWV #6: "Frontiers and Peripheries: Vietnam Deconstructed and Reconnected," 5-7 November 2014, Eugene, Oregon.

• EWV #5: "Integrating Knowledge: The Multiple Ways of Knowing Vietnam," 16-17 December 2013, Thái Nguyên.

• EWV #4: "Vietnam Beyond the Boundaries," 8-9 November 2012, Honolulu.

• EWV #3: "Beyond the East-West Dichotomy: Implications for Research and Knowledge Production," 4-5, December 2011, Hanoi.

• EWV #2: "Dialogues in Globalized Social Sciences, Humanities and Education." 30 November-10 December 2010, Hanoi.

• EWV #1: "(Re)Constructing Knowledge in the Age of Globalization," 23-24 February 2010, Melbourne

Role as Editor-in-chief

• Founding Co-editor and Co-editor-in-chief, Global Vietnam (Amsterdam University Press), 2023-present.

• Founding Co-editor and Co-editor-in-chief, Global Vietnam book series (Springer Nature), 2022-present.

• Co-editor-in-chief, China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies, 2020 - present.

• Co-editor-in-chief, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 2015 - 2018.