Professional Affiliation

Professor in Vietnamese History, Seoul National University

Expert Bio

Dr. Grossheim is Professor in Vietnamese History, Seoul National  University. His research and teaching interests focus on modern Vietnamese history, Cold War history, intelligence studies and memory.  He has previously been Adjunct Professor at Passau University, Visiting Associate Professor at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and at Humboldt University Berlin; a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies at Lund University/Sweden; and a Fellow of the  Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Sojourn (Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia), Journal of Vietnamese Studies, and Cold War History. Dr. Grossheim received his M.A. and his doctoral degree in Southeast  Asian history at Passau University. He is fluent in Vietnamese.

Wilson Center Project

The Politics of History and Memory in Modern-day Vietnam

Major Publications

•  “The Lao Động Party, Culture and the Campaign against ‘Modern Revisionism’: North Vietnam before the Second Indochina War.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies (accepted for publication)
• Ho Chi Minh. Der geheimnisvolle Revolutionär. Leben und Legende [Ho Chi Minh, The Mysterious Revolutionary: Life and Legend]. Munich: Beck, 2011, 190 pp.
•  “Revisionism in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam: New Evidence from the East German Archives.” Cold War History 5, no. 4 (Nov. 2005): 451-477.

Previous Terms

Fellow from September 2013-May 2014