MIT World Speakers

Ngo Ving Long

Ngo Ving Long's research has focused on the problems of the peasantry and of rural development in East and Southeast Asia. In 2000, he served as a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam, teaching courses on the post-World War 2 history of economic development and foreign relations in East and Southeast Asia.

Long earned a Ph. D. in East Asian History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1978, and joined the University of Maine in 1985. His books include Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants under the French (MIT Press, 1973); and, as co-editor, Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States and the War (Westview Press, 1991).