Haejeong Hazel Hahn

Haejeong Hazel-Hahn, PhD — Faculty ; Professor ; Asian Studies Program - Department of Film and Media - Department of History - Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program , College of Arts & Sciences ; Areas of Expertise: Cultural History | Urban History | Modern France | Colonial Vietnam | Colonial Cambodia .

Department Chair, History
Professor, History
Affiliate, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Affiliate, Asian Studies
Affiliate, Film and Media Studies

Biography

Hahn Haejeong Hazel CV(PDF)

Haejeong Hazel Hahn was born in Seoul, Korea. She received her Ph.D at the University of California at Berkeley. She was recipient of the Chateaubriand Fellowship for doctoral research administered by the French Ministry of Education. Her scholarly fields are modern cultural and urban history of France, Vietnam and Cambodia. She is the author of Scenes of Parisian Modernity: Culture and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century (2009); co-editor (with Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Ken Tadashi Oshima and Peter Christensen) of Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent through History (2013), which was selected as a Choice’s Outstanding Academic Title in 2014; and editor of Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary: Global Encounters via Southeast Asia (2019). She works on the urban, cultural, and architectural history of Paris and of colonial Vietnam and colonial Cambodia. She also researches on travel and representations of the foreign, through the illustrated press, fiction, books on geography, travelogues, and other cultural artifacts.

Education

  • Ph.D: History, U.C. Berkeley
  • MA: History, U.C. Berkeley
  • BA: History, Wellesley College
  • Junior Year Abroad: Oxford University

Courses Taught

Dr. Hahn teaches interdisciplinary courses on the history of culture, cities, colonialism and commodities, highlighting class and gender dynamics and patterns of cross-cultural exchange.

  • Modern Europe and Asia
  • HIST 3130 Europe & Empires 1789-1914
  • HIST 3160 European and Colonial Cities
  • HIST 3860 History of Southeast Asia
  • HIST 3520 Cities, Landscape and Film
  • HIST 3270 Modern Cultural History of Women
  • HIST 3910 Commodities: Global History
  • UCOR 3200 World Heritage & Cultural Exchange

Publications

H. Hazel Hahn ed. Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary: Global Encounters via Southeast Asia. National University of Singapore Press, 2019

Vimalin Rujivacharakul, H. Hazel Hahn, Ken Tadashi Oshima and Peter Christensen eds. Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent through History. University of Hawai‘i Press & Hong Kong University Press, 2013

H. Hazel Hahn. Scenes of Parisian Modernity: Culture and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009