Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Professor Hue-Tam Ho Tai is the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard University and is a historian of modern Vietnam. Professor Tai's other research interests are public memory and public history, the famine of 1945 in northern Vietnam as experience and memory, and telling lives: biography and autobiography. Growing up during the Vietnam War, Professor Hue-Tam Ho Tai provides a special perspective on the war. Her parents were Vietnamese revolutionaries, which resulted in her relocation to France during the height of the war. As an eventual undergraduate at Brandeis University, she studied political science and was the sole Vietnamese student during anti-war protests in the late 1960s. She then would go onto graduate school before becoming a professor at Harvard. Some of her publications include Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam, Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution, and The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam.