Anh Sy Huy Le
Assistant Professor of History
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Anh Sy Huy Le
Assistant Professor of History
anh.syhuyle@snc.edu
100 Grant Street
Boyle, 407
De Pere, WI 54115-2099
About
Welcome.
Anh Le (in Vietnamese diacritics Lê Sỹ Huy Anh) is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin). At St. Norbert, I teach introductory and upper-level courses on Modern East Asia, China, Vietnam, and colonial Southeast Asia; Global Chinese Migration; Asian-American History; and Comparative Colonialism. I also teach in the Peace & Justice Studies program and am a faculty affiliate with the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding in the 2022-2023 academic year at SNC.
Trained as a historian of modern China and Vietnam, I explore three recurring and interrelated themes in my research and writing: 1) the interlinked dynamics and tensions between Chinese migrant networks, urbanization, and the political economy. 2) colonial strategies of ethnic administration. And 3) how inter-Asian migrant networks transformed colonial relations and reconfigured our knowledge of history. I am currently revising my dissertation into a book manuscript, tentatively titled Entangled Histories: Chinese Migration, Inter-Asian Connections, and Empire Building in French Colonial Vietnam. The book investigates the migrations, settlements, and evolution of the Chinese community in southern Vietnam and their roles in Saigon’s emergence as a prominent port city by the late nineteenth century. It is a social and economic history of Chinese migrants in southern Vietnam and at once an urban history of the colonial city, inter-ethnic relations, and the inter-Asian forces shaping its cosmopolitan characters.
I received my Ph.D. with distinction in East Asian History from Michigan State University in 2021 and B.A. Honor in Economics and Chinese studies from Wabash College. At MSU, I was advised by a foremost expert on Vietnamese Catholicism, French Indochina, and social history, Dr. Charles P. Keith, and served on the organizing committee of the interdisciplinary migration studies collective.
My research has received support from the Social Science Research Council and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Henry Luce-American Council of Learned Society, the American Historical Association, and the National Library of Singapore. I have held visiting fellowships at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore and Singapore's National Library Board. Deeply committed to multi-sited and multilingual archival works, I have conducted research in national libraries and state/municipal archives across China, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, and France.
When not reading and researching history, I am an amateur runner and indoor rock-climbing enthusiast. I also finds solace in hiking trails and my growing record collection. On a casual, non-active day, I enjoy a good novel and browsing random digital archives in search of interesting stuff that rarely has to do with my own research, but probably will excite my students down the road.
Anh Le (in Vietnamese diacritics Lê Sỹ Huy Anh) is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin). At St. Norbert, I teach introductory and upper-level courses on Modern East Asia, China, Vietnam, and colonial Southeast Asia; Global Chinese Migration; Asian-American History; and Comparative Colonialism. I also teach in the Peace & Justice Studies program and am a faculty affiliate with the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding in the 2022-2023 academic year at SNC.
Trained as a historian of modern China and Vietnam, I explore three recurring and interrelated themes in my research and writing: 1) the interlinked dynamics and tensions between Chinese migrant networks, urbanization, and the political economy. 2) colonial strategies of ethnic administration. And 3) how inter-Asian migrant networks transformed colonial relations and reconfigured our knowledge of history. I am currently revising my dissertation into a book manuscript, tentatively titled Entangled Histories: Chinese Migration, Inter-Asian Connections, and Empire Building in French Colonial Vietnam. The book investigates the migrations, settlements, and evolution of the Chinese community in southern Vietnam and their roles in Saigon’s emergence as a prominent port city by the late nineteenth century. It is a social and economic history of Chinese migrants in southern Vietnam and at once an urban history of the colonial city, inter-ethnic relations, and the inter-Asian forces shaping its cosmopolitan characters.
I received my Ph.D. with distinction in East Asian History from Michigan State University in 2021 and B.A. Honor in Economics and Chinese studies from Wabash College. At MSU, I was advised by a foremost expert on Vietnamese Catholicism, French Indochina, and social history, Dr. Charles P. Keith, and served on the organizing committee of the interdisciplinary migration studies collective.
My research has received support from the Social Science Research Council and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Henry Luce-American Council of Learned Society, the American Historical Association, and the National Library of Singapore. I have held visiting fellowships at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore and Singapore's National Library Board. Deeply committed to multi-sited and multilingual archival works, I have conducted research in national libraries and state/municipal archives across China, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, and France.
When not reading and researching history, I am an amateur runner and indoor rock-climbing enthusiast. I also finds solace in hiking trails and my growing record collection. On a casual, non-active day, I enjoy a good novel and browsing random digital archives in search of interesting stuff that rarely has to do with my own research, but probably will excite my students down the road.
