• PHD Development Sociology, Cornell University 2011
World Area Of Focus:
• Southeast Asia 50%-74%
Languages:
• French (limited working proficiency) • Indonesian (native/bilingual proficiency) • Vietnamese (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Development, state formation, territory and territoriality, nationalism, nature-society relations, agrarian studies, Southeast Asia.
Relevant Experience:
• 2007-2011 Visiting Scholar, Dept of Sociology, Duke University • 1998-2002 Interpreter (Indonesian), US Department of State
Distinctions:
• 2006-ongoing 2016-17 Member, School of Historical Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (declined fall in favor of IAH; accepted spring).
2016 Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Arts & Humanities (IAH), UNC-CH (fall).
2016 Vietnam Writing Fellowship, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, AU (declined).
2011 Vietnam Studies Group Graduate Student Essay Prize, Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu.
2010 Philip Taietz Graduate Student Essay Award, Development Sociology, Cornell University.
2006-07 Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award for study in Vietnam.
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• GEOG 121 People and Places: Geographies of Globalization • GEOG 232 Agriculture, Food, and Society • GEOG 392 Research Methods in Geography • GEOG 64 Vietnam • GEOG 804 Graduate Seminar in Agrarian Studies
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Lentz, Christian C. 2017. “Cultivating subjects: Opium and rule in postcolonial Vietnam.” Modern Asian Studies 51(3): 1-40.
• 2015 Lentz, Christian C. 2015. “Encountering everyday perspectives on the American War.” Geopolitics 20(4): 753-756.
• 2014 Lentz, Christian C. 2014. “The King Yields to the Village? A Micro-politics of State making in Northwest Vietnam,” Political Geography 39: 1-10.
• 2013 Lentz, Christian C. 2013. "Mountain Village Head" in Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity. J. Barker, E. Harms, and J. Lindquist, eds (Honolulu: University of Hawaii): 65-67.
• 2011 Lentz, Christian C. 2011. “Making the Northwest Vietnamese.” Journal of Vietnamese
Studies 6(2): 68-105.
• 2011 Lentz, Christian C. 2011. “Mobilization and State Formation on a Frontier of Vietnam.” Journal of Peasant Studies [Routledge]. 38, 3 (July): 559-586.
• 2011 Lentz, Christian C. Guest co-editor (with Bradley Davis), special issue of Journal of Vietnamese Studies [University of California] on “Hidden Histories and Submerged Stories from Northwest Vietnam.” Includes research essay, “Making the Northwest Vietnamese.” 6(2): 68-105. June, 2011.
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