Jason Picard, PhD, Asst. Prof.
College of Arts and Sciences
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Dr. Jason A Picard is the Founding Assistant Professor of Vietnamese History and Culture in the College of Arts and Sciences at VinUniversity in Hanoi. A historian of Southeast Asia by training, Dr. Picard received his PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley and MA in Asian Studies from Cornell University. Prior to arriving at VinUniversity, Dr. Picard served as Lecturer of Modern Southeast Asian History for Loyola University Chicago, teaching a variety of courses relating to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia. He has been a Fellow at both Vietnam’s National Institute of Literature and Institute of History. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Fragmented Loyalties: How Vietnam’s Great Migration Destabilized a Nation and Altered a War examining the impact of one of the most crucial events of Vietnam’s 20th century, the migration of 1954-1955.
Dr. Picard’s passion for Vietnam and Southeast Asian Studies dates back to 1997 when he became the first American permitted to live in Tây Ninh province since 1975. He spent nearly two years in Tây Ninh teaching English to in-service students of the then-University of Pedagogy in Hồ Chí Minh City.
Migration, Economic History, Social Movements, Literature, Translation Studies, Marxism-Leninism, Cold War History, and International History
Applied History, Southeast Asia, Economic History, Modern World History, Cold War, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Literature, Communism, Colonialism, Nationalism, and Revolution
Picard, Jason A, “‘They Eat the Flesh of Children’: Migration, Resettlement, and Sectionalism in South Vietnam, 1954-1957”; pp. 143-163; In Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920-1963; Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2023.
Picard, Jason A. “Locating Rhyme: Historical Climate Lessons from Fourteenth Century Vietnam”; pp. 1-15; In Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health; Springer, 2023.
Picard, Jason A. “How Vietnamese Infiltrated America: The Influence of Language Training From Armies to Universities, 1942-1965”; Sojourn (Under Review).
Picard, Jason A. “The Making of an Architect: The Rise of Lê Đức Thọ, 1911-1960”; Journal of Modern Asian Studies (Under Review).
Picard, Jason A (Translator). “Cánh Đồng Bất Tận” [The Endless Field], Hồ Chí Minh City: Youth Publishing House, 2019 (Award-Winning Novella).
Picard, Jason A. “Tours of Duty: Framing Vietnamese Nationalism on the Hồ Chí Minh Trail, 1954-1975,” Journal of Modern Asian Studies (Under Review).
Picard, Jason A. “Review of Vietnam’s Lost Revolution: Ngô Đình Diệm’s Failure to Build An Independent Nation, 1955-1963,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2019), 166-171.
Picard, Jason A. “‘Fertile Lands Await’: The Promise and Pitfalls of Directed Resettlement,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 3-4 (2016), 58-102.
PhD – University of California, Berkeley
MA – Cornell University
BA – Emory University
Emory University
2023 Faculty of the Year Award, VinUniversity
2023 Teaching Excellence Award, VinUniversity
2022 Teaching Excellence Award, VinUniversity
