Picard Jason A.

Dr. Jason A Picard is the Founding Assistant Professor of Vietnamese History and Culture in the College of Arts and Sciences at VinUniversity in Hanoi. A historian of Southeast Asia by training, Dr. Picard received his PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley and MA in Asian Studies from Cornell University. Prior to arriving at VinUniversity, Dr. Picard served as Lecturer of Modern Southeast Asian History for Loyola University Chicago, teaching a variety of courses relating to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia. He has been a Fellow at both Vietnam’s National Institute of Literature and Institute of History. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Fragmented Loyalties: How Vietnam’s Great Migration Destabilized a Nation and Altered a War examining the impact of one of the most crucial events of Vietnam’s 20th century, the migration of 1954-1955. Dr. Picard’s passion for Vietnam and Southeast Asian Studies dates back to 1997 when he became the first American permitted to live in Tây Ninh province since 1975. He spent nearly two years in Tây Ninh teaching English to in-service students of the then-University of Pedagogy in Hồ Chí Minh City.