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Faculty
Visiting Faculty
Corinne Bloch
Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt
Dimitris Kousouris
Sarah Lopez
Valeria Manzano
Emeriti Faculty
Bentley Duncan
Harry Harootunian
Ping-ti Ho
Halil Inalcik
Julius Kirshner
William McNeil
Peter Novick
Associated Faculty
Mark P. Bradley
Professor of International History and the College
Ph.D. Harvard University 1995
The University of Chicago
Department of History
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-3558 -- Office
(773) 702-7550 -- Fax
Email: mbradley@uchicago.edu
On Research Leave: 2011-2012
Field Specialties
Twentieth-Century U.S. International History; Global History of Human Rights Politics; Postcolonial Southeast Asia.
Biography
Mark P. Bradley is a Professor of History and the College. His research and teaching focuses on twentieth century U.S. international history, the global history of human rights politics and postcolonial Southeast Asian history. He is the author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, Vietnam at War (Oxford University Press, 2009) and is the co-editor of Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights (Rutgers University Press, 2001). A recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright-Hays, Professor Bradley is currently completing a book that explores the place of the United States in the global human rights revolutions of the twentieth century for Cambridge University Press. He is also co-authoring a textbook on the international history of the Vietnam wars for Blackwell and serves as a co-editor of the Cornell University Press book series The United States in the World.
Publications
Books
Vietnam at War: The Search for Meaning (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
Edited Volumes
Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Transnational and International Perspectives, co-editor with Marilyn B. Young (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Truth Claims: Representations and Human Rights, coeditor with Patrice Petro (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002).
Selected Essays and Articles
"Decolonization, Revolutionary Nationalism, and the Cold War, 1919-1962" in The Cambridge History of the War, vol. 1, edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
"The Ambiguities of Sovereignty: The United States and the Global Rights Cases of the 1940s," in Art of the State: Sovereignty Past and Present, edited by Douglas Howland and Luise White (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008).
"Introduction," Human Rights and Revolution, edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Lynn Hunt and Greg Grandin (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).
"Interchange: Legacies of the Vietnam Wars," Journal of American History 43.2(September 2006): 452-91.
"Making Sense of the French War: Postcolonial Modernity and Vietnam, 1946-1954" in Indochina in the Balance: New Perspectives on the First Vietnam War, edited by Mark Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall (Harvard University Press, 2006): 16-40.
"The Imperial and the Postcolonial" in Palgrave Advances in International History, edited by P. Finney (London and New York: Palgrave/Macmillan Press, 2005): 247-266.
"Becoming Van Minh: Civilizational Discourse and Rights Talk in Colonial Vietnam," Journal of World History, 15.1 (March 2004): 65-83.
"Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship and U.S. Exceptionalism: Reconsidering American Visions of Postcolonial Vietnam" in The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization, edited by Marc Frey, Ronald W. Preussen and Tan Tai Yong (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2003): 197-212 and in A Companion to the Vietnam War, edited by Marilyn B.Young and Robert Buzzanco (New York: Blackwell Publishing, 2002): 130-145.
"Contests of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting War in the Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema" in The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam, edited by Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001): 196-226.
"Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Culture, Diplomacy and the Origins of the Cold War in Vietnam" in Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966, edited by Christian G. Appy (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000): 11-34.