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UNCG HISTORIAN ON FELLOWSHIP TO AUSTRALIA
 
GREENSBORO — Dr. James A. Anderson, an assistant professor of Asian history at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has received a fellowship to Australian National University.

For eight months, Anderson will be at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. His project is titled “The Nung Tri Cao Rebellion in Sino-Vietnamese Frontier Management” and he will be collaborating with Dr. David Marr, an expert in Vietnamese history. The project will provide the research for a book Anderson plans to write. The Henry Luce Foundation of New York is funding the fellowship through its program to enhance Asian studies in the United States.

A specialist in Vietnamese history, Anderson joined the UNCG faculty in 1999. A graduate of Harvard University, he holds the master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington. He taught previously at Seattle Pacific University and the University of Washington.

Anderson’s dissertation topic was titled “A Special Relationship: 10th-13th Century Sino-Vietnamese Tribute Relations in the Traditional Chinese Notion of World Order.” He held a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship to study at institutes in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam. He also held the Hsiao Fellowship in the School of International Studies at the University of Washington.
 

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