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Shawn F. McHale

Associate Professor of History and International Affairs
Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies
Director, Asian Studies Program

1957 E Street, NW Suite 503

Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-2760
Fax: (202) 994-6096
E-mail: mchale@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Cornell University

Expertise:

Southeast Asian and Vietnamese history, decolonization, religious transformations

Background:

Born in Southeast Asia, Professor McHale received his B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Hawaii, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Cornell University (1995). He has taught courses in East and Southeast Asian history, Vietnam, and on colonialism and its legacy. His current research interests include decolonization, the First Indochina War, and religion and Third Worldism.

Professor McHale's publications include Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam (University of Hawaii Press, 2004); and "Freedom, Violence, and the Struggle Over the Public Realm in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945-1958," in Naissance d'un Etat-Parti: le Viet Nam depuis 1945, eds. Benoit de Treglode and Christopher Goscha (Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2004). He will be in Vietnam on a Fulbright-Hays faculty fellowship for the 2007-08 academic year, where he will carry out research on the First Indochina War, decolonization, and the transformation of beliefs in a time of great social and political upheaval.

Courses Taught:

Hist 101 Modern Southeast Asian History
Hist 101 Vietnam: From Colonialism to War
Hist 250 History of International Systems
Hist 288 Modern Southeast Asia
Hist 297 Memory: Global Perspectives
IAff 91 East Asia: Past and Present

Last update: 07.10.08