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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).
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These interviews were conducted in Vietnam between 2007 and 2011, with the focus on district and village Việt Minh cadres active during the First Indochina War, 1945-1954. David G. Marr (ANU) provided the initial questionnaire. Nguyễn Thị Hồng Hạnh and Đào Thế Đức organized the interviews. The Vietnam Historical Association co-sponsored the project and facilitated local contacts. It retained the original audio recordings. Interviewees were promised content confidentiality for five years. Funding for the project came from the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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