Student Profile:

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Stan B-H Tan

Stan B-H Tan is a Senior Tutor from the Southeast Asian Studies Program at the National University of Singapore. He is currently on study leave to pursue his PhD at the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University. His PhD thesis is entitled 'Dust beneath the mist: State and frontier formation in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, the 1955-61 Period'.

Stan received his BA (Hon) and MA from the Southeast Asian Studies Program at the National University of Singapore. Since 1997, he has studied Vietnam. His main research interests concern rural societies in Southeast Asia (particularly Vietnam), frontiers and upland-lowland relations in mainland Southeast Asia and social histories of agro-commodities (especially coffee, tea and spices).

His publications are:

'Coffee frontiers in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Networks of connectivity', Asia Pacific Viewpoint 41 (1), pp 51-67, 2000.

(With Andrew Hardy, Mathieu Guerin and Nguyan Chinh) Des Montagnards aux Minorités ethniques. Quelle intégration nationale pour les habitants des hautes terres du Vietnam et du Cambodge ?, Paris-Bangkok: L'Harmattan/IRASEC, 2003.

'Rethinking Approaches to the Study of the Central Highlands of Vietnam: A Review of Oscar Salemink's The Ethnography of the Central Highlanders of Vietnam and Gerald Hickey's Window on a War', Sojourn 19 (2), pp 288-303, 2004.
Email: stan.tan@anu.edu.au

[Photo caption: Stan B-H Tan at EUROSEAS Conference 2004 in Paris, in front of Bibliotheque Sorbonne.]