Name David Marr | Role Historian | |
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Books Vietnam: State - War - and Revo, Vietnamese Tradition on Trial - 1, Vietnam 1945, Vietnam: State - War - Revolutio, Vietnamese anticolonialism - 1885‑1925 | ||
David George Marr (born September 22, 1937) is an American historian specializing in the modern history of Vietnam.
Marr was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Henry George (an auditor) and Louise M. (a teacher; maiden name, Brown). A former captain in the US Marine Corps, Marr learned Vietnamese as an officer in the US, then first went to Vietnam in 1962. Marr studied at Dartmouth College (BA) and the University of California, Berkeley (MA; PhD 1968). He was researcher at ANU Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) from 1975. He has also been editor of Vietnam Today, and co-director of the Indochina Resource Center (Washington and Berkeley). A former assistant professor at Cornell University and University of California, he is currently Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language and Senior Fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.