Hy Van Luong (Send e-mail)

HY V. LUONG (B.A., University of California at Berkeley; A.M. and Ph.D., Harvard University) is currently Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Collaborative Master's Degree Program in Asia-Pacific Studies. He is interested in the interplay of discourse, social structure, political economy, and in East and Mainland Southeast Asia (especially Vietnam). He has regularly conducted fieldwork in Vietnam since 1987. Luong's current projects in Vietnam focus on discourse, gender, political economy, gifts and social capital, and sociocultural transformation in rural and urbanizing communities in the northern and southern parts of Vietnam.

Among Luong’s honors are the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto (1994) and an Honorary Professorship (highest academic honor) at the National University of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City (2006).

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