David Hunt

History Department

Harbor Campus

University of Massachusetts at Boston

Boston, Ma 02125

abp01d@r.postjobfree.com

October 2011

Born:

March 1, 1942, Buffalo, NY

Education:

PhD., Harvard University, 1969

B.A., Haverford College, 1963

Employment:

Professor, UMass/Boston, 1994-present

Associate Professor, UMB, 1975-1994

Assistant Professor, UMB, 1969-1975

Research interests:

Vietnam War and 20th-century Vietnam; peasants and

revolutions; French Revolution and French social history;

politics and culture.

Books:

Vietnam s Southern Revolution: From Peasant

Insurrection to Total War (Amherst: UMass Press, 2008).

Parents and Children in History: The Psychology of

Family Life in Early Modern France (New York: Basic Books,

1970). A paperback edition was published by Harper & Row

in 1972.

Monograph:

Villagers at War: The National Liberation Front in My

Tho Province, 1965-1967, in double issue of Radical America

8 (January-April 1974), 3-183.

Book edited:

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Jayne Werner and David Hunt, ed., The American War in

Vietnam (Ithaca: Southeast Asia Publications/Cornell

University, 1993).

Book translated:

Le Luu, A Time Far Past, Nguyen Ba Chung, Ngo Vinh

Hai, Kevin Bowen, and David Hunt, trans. (Amherst: UMass

Press, 1997).

Work in Progress:

Ethnography of Revolution: A Social History of the

Vietnam War.

Articles and Book Chapters:

Dirty Wars: Counter-Insurgency in Vietnam and Today,

Politics and Society 38/1 (2010), 35-66.

Taking Notice of the Everyday, in Making Sense of

the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational

Perspectives, ed. Mark Bradley and Marilyn Young (New York:

Oxford University Press, 2008), 171-197.

Revolution in the Delta, Critical Asian Studies 35/4

(2003), 599-620.

The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split, in A

Companion to the Vietnam War, ed. Robert Buzzanco and

Marilyn Young (Malden MA: Blackwell, 2002), 79-92.

Washington Quagmire: U.S. Presidents and the Vietnam

War, in A Companion to Post-1945 America, ed. Jean-

Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig (Malden, MA: Blackwell,

2002), 464-478.

The Gift of Food: The Provisioning of Troops During

the American War, Journal of the Historical Society 2/2

(2002), 125-143.

Grunts and Historians: Recent Representations of

Vietnam Veterans, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars

32/4 (2000), 61-70.

War Crimes and the Vietnamese People: American

Representations and Silences, Bulletin of Concerned Asian

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Scholars 30/2 (1998), 72-82; reprinted in Censoring

History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the

United States, ed. Laura Hein and Mark Selden (Armonk:

Sharpe, 2000), 173-200; translated and reprinted under the

title Crimini di guerra e popolo vietnamita:

Rappresentazioni e silenzi americani, in Italia

contemporanea 216 (1999), 497-512.

Introduction to Le Luu, A Time Far Past (Amherst:

UMass Press, 1997), vii-xviii.

Images of the Viet Cong, In Robert Slabey, ed., The

United States and Viet Nam: From War to Peace (New York:

McFarland, 1996), 51-63.

Prefigurations of the Vietnamese Revolution, in ed.

Rayna Rapp and Jane Schenider, Articulating Hidden

Histories: Anthropology, History and the Influence of Eric

R. Wolf (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995),

108-121.

U.S. Scholarship and the National Liberation Front,

in The American War in Vietnam, ed. Jayne Werner and David

Hunt (Ithaca: Southeast Asia Publications/Cornell

University, 1993), 93-108.

The Anti-War Movement after the War, in The Vietnam

War: Vietnamese and American Perspectives, ed. Jayne Werner

and Luu Doan Huynh (New York: Sharpe, 1993), 258-270.

Peasant Routes in France and Vietnam, Peasant

Studies 17 (1990), 141-149.

The Measure of Popular Culture, Comparative Studies

in Society and History 31/2 (1989), 363-371.

From the Millennial to the Everyday: James Scott s

Search for the Essence of Peasant Politics, Radical

History Review 42 (1988), 155-172.

Peasant Movements and Communal Property During the

French Revolution, Theory and Society 17 (1988), 255-283.

History as Indoctrination: A Critique of Palmer and

Colton s A History of the Modern World, The History

Teacher 21 (1987), 53-103 (co-authored with Linda Gordon

and Peter Weiler).

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Freedom and Illusion in Vietnam, Radical America 20

(March-May 1986), 52-62.

Working People of France and their Historians,

Radical History Review 28-30 (1984), 45-65.

Peasant Politics in the French Revolution, Social

History 9 (1984), 277-299; translated and reprinted in E.P.

Thompson et al., La guerre du bl au XVIIIe si cle (Paris:

Editions de la Passion, 1988), 205-232.

Theda Skocpol and the Peasant Route, Socialist

Review 70 (1983), 121-144.

Village Culture and the Vietnamese Revolution, Past

& Present 94 (1982), 131-157.

The People and Pierre Dolivier: Popular Uprisings in

the Seine-et-Oise Department, 1791-1792, French Historical

Studies 11 (1979), 184-214.

Popular Uprisings and the Origins of Socialism in

France, Socialist Review 40-41 (1978), 221-239.

Remembering the Tet Offensive, Radical America 11-12

(winter 1977-1978), 79-96; reprinted in Vietnam and

America: A Documented History, ed. Marvin Gettleman (New

York: Grove Press, 1985, 1995).

Presentations:

Limits of Revolutionary State Building in Southern

Vietnam, sponsored by the Program on Order, Conflict, and

Violence, at Yale University, December 3, 2010.

Land to Till and a Car to Ride in, as part of a

colloquium on Remembering Vietnam: The Last Memoir of War

in the Mekong Delta, sponsored by the Center for the Study

of Force and Diplomacy and the Center for Vietnamese

Philosophy, Culture, and Society, at Temple University,

November 11, 2010.

Anticipation on a Social History of the Vietnam War,

Council on Southeast Asia Studies Seminar Series, Yale

University, April 14, 2010.

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The Disposable Strategy: Counter-Insurgency in

Vietnam, at a conference on Reconsidering

Counterinsurgency, Santa Fe Institute, March 22, 2008.

Taking Notice of the Everyday, at a conference on

Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars, University of Kentucky,

October 11, 2007.

Vietnam 1960: The Peasant Revolt That Began the War,

Symposium on French Social History: Intersections and New

Directions, Emory University, April 24, 2007.

Mekong Delta Views of the United States, Popular

Culture Association Convention, Boston, April 6, 2007.

The Chieu Hoi Program: Saigon s Ellis Island,

American Historical Association Conference, Philadelphia,

January 6, 2006.

Soldiers of the National Liberation Front, History

Society Annual Conference, Boston University, June 2, 2000.

Convener and discussant, panel on Construction of the

Vietnamese Colonial Past, at Association of Asian Studies

Conference, Boston, March 24, 1994.

Images of the Vietnamese, at a conference on the

United States and Viet Nam: From War to Peace, at Notre

Dame University, December 2, 1993.

The Discovery of Alienation in Post-War Vietnam,

Southeast Asia Studies Seminar, Yale University, November

20, 1991.

Prefigurations of the Vietnamese Revolution, panel

on Social Movements and Ideologies: Papers in Honor of

Eric R. Wolf, American Anthropological Association

Convention, New Orleans, December 1, 1990.

The Anti-War Movement after the War, panel on

Dissent/ Opposition and U.S. Policy-Making, conference on

the History of the Vietnam/Indochina War, Columbia

University, November 17, 1990.

Facing Vietnam, as part of a series on Countries

Often Overlooked, Global Education Conference, Schweitzer

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International Center, Framingham State College, April 25,

1990.

Discussant, panel on Vietnam and the Tradition of

Revolution, McClellan Symposium on America, Vietnam, and

the War: Policy, Culture, Consequences, Miami University,

Oxford, Ohio, March 3, 1990.

Peasant Routes in France and Vietnam, panel on

Communal Property and Peasant Struggles in Vietnam,

American Historical Association Convention, San Francisco,

December 28, 1989.

The Debate over Communal Property in the French

Revolution, 1791-1793, at the French Historical Studies

Convention, Los Angeles, March 22, 1985.

Reviews and Notes:

Eric Jennings, Imperial Heights: Dalat and the Making

and Undoing of French Indochina (Berkeley: University of

California Press, 2011), in American Historical Review

(forthcoming).

Mark Philip Bradley, Vietnam at War (New York: Oxford

University Press, 2009), in Cold War History 11/2 (2011),

289-290.

Robert Schulzinger, A Time for Peace; The legacy of

the Vietnam War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006);

and Edwin Martini, Invisible Enemies: The American War on

Vietnam, 1975-2000 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts

Press, 2007), in Peace and Change 36/3 (July 2011), 472-

475.

My book Vietnam s Southern Revolution: From Peasant

Insurrection to Total War (Amherst: UMass Press, 2008) was

the subject of an H-Diplo roundtable, with commentaries

from four scholars and my response: http://www.h-

net.org~diplo/roundtables/PDF/roundtable-XII-11.pdf, March

28, 2011

Michael Allen, Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs,

MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War (Chapel Hill: University

of North Carolina Press, 2009), in H-Diplo Roundtable,

http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XI-

42.pdf, October 1, 2010.

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Phan doi chien tranh VN la may man cua doi toi (I

was Lucky to be Part of the Anti-War Movement), Vietnam

News Service, http://www.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Phan-doi-

chien-tranh-VN-la-may-man-cua-doi-toi/20104, May 3, 2010.

Ha Noi trong mat mot chang re My (Hanoi Through the

Eye of an American Son-in-Law), Tin Tuc ( The News ), May

20, 2010.

Mark Lawrence, The Vietnam War: A Concise

International History (New York: Oxford University Press,

2009), in Journal of Vietnamese Studies 4/2 (2009), 204-

206.

Gareth Porter, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power

and the Road to War in Vietnam (Berkeley: University of

California Press, 2005), in Journal of Vietnamese Studies

2/1(2007), 190-192.

Charles Neu, America s Lost War: Vietnam 1945-1975

(Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2005), in Journal of

Military History 70 (2006), 278-279.

Christoph Giebel, Imagined Ancestors of Vietnamese

communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and

Memory (2004) in Journal of Asian Studies 65 (2006) 225-

227.

Shawn McHale, Print and Power: Confucianism,

Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam

(2004), in Journal of Asian Studies 64 (2005), 799-800.

Hue-Tam Ho Tai, The Country of Memory: Remaking the

Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (2001), in Journal of Asian

Studies 63 (2004), 856-858.

Jane Bradley Winston and Leakthina Chau-Prech Ollier,

eds., Of Vietnam: [Identities in Dialogue] (2001), in

Journal of Asian Studies 62 (2003), 1349-1350.

The Legend of Uncle Ho, a review of William Duiker,

Ho Chi Minh (2000), in Radical Historians Newsletter 83

(2000).

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Karen Turner, Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of

War from North Vietnam (1998), in Manoa 12:1 (2000), 258-

260.

The Tet Offensive, ed. Marc Gilbert and William Head

(1996), in Journal of Asian Studies 57 (1998), 602-605.

Timothy Lomperis, From People s War to People s Rule:

Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam

(1996), in Journal of Asian Studies 56 (1997), 855-856.

Gabriel Kolko and the Mainstream in the United States

and Vietnam, a review of Kolko, Anatomy of a War: Vietnam,

the United States and the Modern Historical Experience

(1994), in Science & Society 61 (1997), 402-407.

Robert Buzzanco, Masters of War: Military Dissent and

Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996), in International

History Review 19 (1997), 981-983.

Pierre Brocheux, The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy,

and Revolution, 1860-1960 (1995), in Journal of Asian

Studies 55 (1996), 779-781.

William Duiker, Sacred War: Nationalism and revolution

in a Divided Vietnam (1995), in American Historical Review

101 (1996), 545-546.

John Murphy, Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia s

Vietnam War (1994), in Journal of Asian Studies 54 (1995),

260-262.

Martha Hess, Then the Americans Came: Voices from

Vietnam (1993), In Journal of Asian Studies 54 (1995), 626-

628.

Gareth Porter, Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic

Socialism, in Journal of Asian Studies 53 (1994), 646-648.

Addressing a Hidden History: Bruce Cumings on the

Korean War, a review of Cumings, Origins of the Korean

War, 2 vols., in Radical Historians Newsletter 70 (1994).

P.M. Jones, The Peasantry in the French Revolution

(1988), in Agricultural History 64 (1990), 101-102.

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Melanie Beresford, Vietnam: Politics, Economics and

Society (1988), in Development and Change 21/3 (1990), 540-

541.

David Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social

Order and Disorder in the New Republic, in Book World,

August 22, 1971.

Homage to a Freudian, a review of Robert Coles, Erik

H. Erikson: The Growth of his Work, in Book World, December

13, 1970.

Movie reviews:

The Red Princess Wins an Oscar, a review of

Indochine, in Radical Historians Newsletter 68 (1993).

Andrzej Wajda and the Reign of the People, a

review of Wajda s Danton, in Radical History Review 29

(1984).

Prizes, Grants, Awards:

UMB Chancellor s Distinguished Teaching Award, 2002.

UMass/Boston Professional Development Grant, research

on social history of Vietnam War, 1997.

Social Science Research Council Grant, research on the

Return of the Festival, 1991.

UMB Provost travel money, research trip to Vietnam,

1991.

UMB College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished

Teaching Award, 1986.

William Joiner Center Research Grant, travel money,

educators delegation to Vietnam, 1985.

Social Science Research Council, post-doctoral study,

Social Relations Department, Harvard, 1968-1969.

Fulbright, graduate study in Paris, 1966-1967.

Woodrow Wilson, graduate study at Harvard, 1963-1964.

Phi Beta Kappa, Haverford 1963.

Conferences Organized:

History Coordinator, Vietnam Institute, July 22-August

16, 1996, funded by NEH grant, for high school teachers on

the history and literature of the Vietnam War.

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Coordinator, Vietnam Institute, a three-day conference

for high-school teachers, sponsored by the William Joiner

Center, UMB, 1993 and 1994.

Co-Coordinator of conference on the Vietnam/American

War, organized by Vietnam Institute of Military History,

Social Sciences Commission, and International Relations

Institute, and, the Samuel Rubin Foundation and the William

Joiner Center, Hanoi, November 25-27, 1988.

Organizing Committee, Second Annual New England

Regional Conference on Radical Approaches to History, May

1973.

Administrative Positions:

Associate Director, Honors Program, UMass/Boston,

1999-2003.

Co-Director, William Joiner Center for the Study of

War and Social Consequences, UMass/Boston, 1986-1993.

Editor, Vietnam Studies Bulletin, 1990-1994.

Board of Directors, William Joiner Foundation, 1989-

1993.

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