Liam C. Kelley
liam.kelley@ubd.edu.bn
Associate Professor, Institute of Asian Studies
Liam C. Kelley is an historian. His main research focuses on Vietnam, but he teaches broadly on Southeast Asian, Asian and World History.
Since 2012, Professor Kelley has been co-organizing, with Senior Professor Phan Le Ha of the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, an annual conference called "Engaging with Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue" (engagingwithvietnam.org).
Professor Kelley is also very interested in how the digital revolution is transforming academic life. Since 2010, he has published an academic blog, "Le Minh Khai's Southeast Asian History blog" (https://leminhkhai.wordpress.com/). It currently has more than 1,000 posts and has been viewed over half a million times. He has also produced a short-term blog on the ways in which the world of area studies is struggling to adapt to the transformations of globalization and the digital age - "Content Asian Studies" (https://contentasianstudies.wordpress.com/).
EDUCATION
PhD (2001) and MA (1996) University of Hawaii at Manoa, Chinese and Southeast Asian History
BA (1989) Dartmouth College, Russian Language and Literature
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Southeast Asian History; Vietnamese History; East Asian History
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Scopus Publications
- The Collaboration Project between Engaging with Vietnam and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies
Phan Lê Hà, Liam C. Kelley, and Jamie Gillen
Journal of Vietnamese Studies, ISSN: 1559372X, eISSN: 15593738, Pages: 1-5, Published: 1 February 2020
University of California Press - The decline of Asian Studies in the West and the rise of knowledge production in Asia: An autoethnographic reflection on mobility, knowledge production, and academic discourses
Liam C Kelley
Research in Comparative and International Education, eISSN: 17454999, Pages: 273-290, Published: 2020
SAGE Publications - The centrality of “fringe history”: Diaspora, the internet and a new version of Vietnamese prehistory
International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, eISSN: 18236243, Pages: 71-104, Published: 2020 - Transnationally-trained scholars working in global contexts: Knowledge production, identity, epistemology, and career trajectories
Le Ha Phan, Liam C. Kelley, and Rommel A. Curaming
Research in Comparative and International Education, eISSN: 17454999, Pages: 189-196, Published: 2020
SAGE Publications - Connecting to power: Imagined genealogies in Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia
Ananya Jahanara Kabir
The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History, Pages: 289-297, Published: 1 January 2018
Routledge - From a reliant land to a Kingdom in Asia: Premodern geographic knowledge and the emergence of the geo-body in late imperial Vietnam
Cross-Currents, ISSN: 21589666, eISSN: 21589674, Volume: 2016, Pages: 7-39, Published: September 2016 - Constructing local narratives: Spirits, dreams, and prophecies in the medieval red river delta
Liam C. Kelley
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3, Southeast Asia, eISSN: 01699571, Pages: 78-105, Published: 2015 - From Moral Exemplar to National Hero: The transformations of Trân Hu'ng Dao and the emergence of Vietnamese nationalism
LIAM C. KELLEY
Modern Asian Studies, ISSN: 0026749X, eISSN: 14698099, Pages: 1963-1993, Published: 1 November 2015
Cambridge University Press (CUP) - Vietnam as a 'domain of manifest civility' (Vǎn Hiến chi Bang)
Liam Kelley
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, ISSN: 00224634, eISSN: 14740680, Pages: 63-76, Published: 2003
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Liam C. Kelley, “The Centrality of ‘Fringe History’: Diaspora, the Internet and a New Version of Vietnamese Prehistory†International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (Forthcoming 2019).
Liam C. Kelley, “From a Reliant Land to a Kingdom in Asia: Premodern Geographic Knowledge and the Emergence of the Geo-Body in Late Imperial Vietnam,†Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 5.2 (2016): 460-496.
Liam C. Kelley, “Moral Exemplar, Our General, Potent Deity, Confucian Moralizer and National Hero: The Transformations of Trần HÆ°ng Äạo,†Modern Asian Studies 49.6 (2015): 1963-1993.
Liam C. Kelley, “Tai Words and the Place of the Tai in the Vietnamese Past,†Journal of the Siam Society 101 (2013): 55-84.
Liam C. Kelley, “The Biography of the Hồng Bà ng Clan as a Medieval Vietnamese Invented Tradition,†Journal of Vietnamese Studies 7.2 (2012): 87-130.
TOP PUBLICATIONS
Liam C. Kelley, Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005).
Liam C. Kelley, “‘Confucianism’ in Vietnam: A State of the Field Essay,†Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1.1-2 (2006): 314-370.
Liam C. Kelley, “Vietnam as a ‘Domain of Manifest Civility’ (Van Hien chi Bang),†Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 34.1 (2003):63-76.
“The Biography of the Hồng Bà ng Clan as a Medieval Vietnamese Invented Tradition,†Journal of Vietnamese Studies 7.2 (2012): 87-130.
Victor Mair and Liam C. Kelley, eds., Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours (Singapore: ISEAS, 2015).