Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1989 - 2008 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
7 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Emeritus Professor Marr is a specialist in Vietnamese history, politics and culture. He served in the US Marine Corps between 1959 and 1964. He taught at Berkeley and Cornell, and headed the Indochina Resource Center in Washington, before coming to the ANU in 1975. He served as editor of Vietnam Today for the Australia-Vietnam Society 1978-1982. He was involved in projects relating to Vietnamese material library cataloguing and coding Vietnamese script in computers.
Significant publications include 'Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945', and 'Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945–1946)'.
Qualifications: BA(Dartmouth), MA, PhD(Berkeley).
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Collected for the ANU Vietnam Studies Group 1992 - 2003. Offprints of articles, ephemera, conference papers and other material.