Geoffrey C. Stewart

Assistant Professor, effective August 1, 2010 to May 31, 2011
The University of Western Ontario

Teaching Fields

American Diplomatic History, Modern Vietnamese History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century International Relations, and United States Domestic History

Research Interests

US-Vietnamese Relations, American Diplomatic History, and Southeast Asian History

Recent Conference Presentations

"Revolution, Nation Building and the Origins of the Special Commissariat for Civic Action in Diệm’s Vietnam," "Revisiting the First Republic of Vietnam: Nationalism, Nation-building and Modernization in Ngô Đình Diệm’s South Vietnam, 1954-1963" workshop, Harvard University, April 2010

"Countering Crisis: The American Social Sciences, Nation-Building and Civic Action in South Vietnam," annual conference of the Canadian Association of American Studies, University of Western Ontario, November 2009

"Between the Cold War and Decolonization: The First Republic of Vietnam and the 'Banding Spirit,'" biennial conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, October 2009

"Civic Action, Revolution and Nation-Building in the Republic of Vietnam: 1955-1963," annual conference of the Canadian Historical Association, Carleton University, May 2009

"Confronting Global Forces at the Local Level: Personalism, Nation-Building and Civic Action in the Republic of Vietnam," conference on "World History and Materialism," University of Manitoba, March 2009

"Nation-Building and Civic Action in the Republic of Vietnam," biennial conference of the Canadian Asian Studies Association, University of Waterloo, November 2008

"To Move Whose Nation? American and South Vietnamese Conceptions of Nation-Building through Civic Action, 1961-1963," annual conference of the Society for Historians of Foreign Relations, Ohio State Univeristy, June 2008

"Making the "Personal" Political: Modernization and Civic Action in the Republic of Việt Nam, 1955-1963," "Beyond Dichotomies: alternative voices and histories in post-colonial Viet Nam" workshop, University of Washington, May 2008.

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Current Courses

  • HIS 1701E - Comparative History of Canada, the United States and Mexico
  • HIS 2131A/B - The Presidency in American History
  • HIS 3320E - Global America: The United States in World Affairs, 1700 to the Present
  • HIS 4791E - The Vietnam Wars: Between Decolonization and the Cold War
  • IR 2701E - The Evolution and Dynamics of Inter-State Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Courses Taught

  • HIS 2705E - International Relations, 1648 to the Present
  • HIS 3797G - Topics in International or Comparative History