Join NYSEAN for a conversation with Martina Nguyen, Assistant Professor at Baruch College-CUNY, and Professor Kosal Path, Associate Professor at Brooklyn College-CUNY, as they discuss Professor Nguyen’s new book, On Our Own Strength: The Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tu Luc Văn Đoàn) and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam.

Martina Thucnhi Nguyen is Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College (City University of New York). An historian of modern Southeast Asia, her research focuses on colonialism, intellectual life and social and political reform in twentieth century Vietnam. Her first book, On Our Own Strength: The Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tu Luc Văn Đoàn) and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam, was published in December 2020 by University of Hawaii Press as part of Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Studies Institute book series. She is currently working on her second book, a gender and economic history focusing on female agency in the economy of late colonial Vietnam. Professor Nguyen received her Ph.D. in 2012 from the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a graduate of Northwestern University, where she earned a B.A. in history and political science.

Kosal Path is an associate professor of political science and chair of Master's Program in International Affairs and Global Justice. He is a survivor of the Cambodian genocide. From 1995 to 2000, he took part in documenting the atrocities committed by the Pol Pot regime, 1975-79. From 2009 to 2011, he taught international relations at the University of Southern California where he received an award of excellence in teaching international relations. At Brooklyn College, he received Whiting Award for teaching excellence in 2015-2016. His main teaching interests are international relations, genocide, and human rights. He is the author of Vietnam's Strategic Thinking During the Third Indochina War (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020).

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