Dr. Tam Ngo
Curriculum Vitae
Research projects
- Between a rock and a hard place: Sinophobia and religious nationalist sentiments in Vietnam (completed)
- North-South by East-West (with Peter van der Veer) (completed)
- The unclaimed war: the social memory of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese Border War in China and Vietnam (completed)
- Bones of contention: technologies of identification and the politics of reconciliation in Vietnam (completed)
- Spiritual heritage and the question of post-war reconciliation in Vietnam (completed)
Publications
Books
Ngo, T. (2016). The new way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Link
Collected Editions
Ngo, T., & Buck Quijada, J. (Eds.). (2015). Atheist secularism and its discontents: A comparative study of religion and communism in Eurasia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Link
Contributions to a Collected edition
Ngo, T., & Mai, N. T. T. (2021). In search of a Vietnamese Buddhist space in Germany. In B. Meyer, & P. van der Veer (Eds.), Refugees and religion: Ethnographic studies of global trajectories (pp. 105-122). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Link
Ngo, T. T. T. (2019). The Uncle Hồ Religion in Vietnam. In P. van der Veer, & K. Dean (Eds.), The secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia (pp. 215-237). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Link
Ngo, T. (2015). Dealing with the dragon: Urban planning in Hanoi. In P. van der Veer (Ed.), Handbook of religion and the Asian city: Aspiration and urbanization in the twenty-first century (pp. 186-200). California: University of California Press. Link
Ngo, T., & Buck Quijada, J. (2015). Introduction: Atheist secularism and its discontents. In T. Ngo, & J. Buck Quijada (Eds.), Atheist secularism and its discontents: A comparative study of religion and communism in Eurasia (pp. 1-26). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Link
van der Veer, P., Ngo, T., & Smyer Yu, D. (2015). Religion and peace in Asia. In R. S. Appleby, D. Little, & A. Omer (Eds.), Oxford handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding (pp. 407-429). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Link
Ngo, T. (2009). The short-waved Faith: Christian Broadcastings and the Transformation of the Spiritual Landscape of the Hmong in Northern Vietnam. In K. F. Lim (Ed.), Mediated Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia (pp. 139-158). Leiden: Brill Verlag. Link
Journal Articles
Ngo, T. (2021). Bones of contention: Situating the dead of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war. American Ethnologist (AE). Link
Ngo, T. (2021). Conspicuous performances: ritual competition between Christian and non-Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam. Social Anthropology, 29(3), 733-747. Link
Ngo, T. T. T. (2019). Dynamics of memory and religious nationalism in a Sino-Vietnamese border town. Modern Asian studies. Link
Ngo, T. (2016). The new way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam.Voice from around the world, 2016(2). Link
Ngo, T. (2015). Missionary encounters at the China-Vietnam border: The case of the Hmong. Cultural Diversity in China, 1(1), 68-83. Link
Ngo, T. (2015). Protestant conversion and social conflict: The case of the Hmong in contemporary Vietnam. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 46(2), 274-292. Link
Ngo, T. (2011). Missionary encounters at the China-Vietnam border: the case of the Hmong. Encounters, 4, 113-131. Link
Ngo, T. (2010). Ethnic and Transnational Dimensions of Recent Protestant Conversion among the Hmong in Northern Vietnam. Social Compass, 57(3), 332-344. Link
Working Papers
Ngo, T. (2009). The “short-waved” faith: Christian broadcasting and Protestant conversion of the Hmong in Vietnam. MMG Working Paper, 09-11. Link
Other
Ngo, T. (2019). Identificatie oorlogsslachtoffers rijt Vietnamese wonden open. De Volkskrant. Link