Education
Vann holds a Doctor of Philosophy in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was a student of Tyler Stovall and Edmund Burke, III.
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Michael Vann
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Career
He specializes in the history of the French colonial empire. 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.
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. Vann has published two books: The Colonial Good Life: André Joyeux"s Vision of French Indochina and 20th Century Voices: Selected Readings in World History.
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". He was interviewed about French colonialism on KUSP"s 7th Avenue Project.
He has also published articles on Indonesian history and politics, including the Cebongan Prison raid, 2013, and Lawang Sewu, a Dutch era haunted house in Semarang.
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Membership
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.
