A Postcolonial Theory of Free Speech - Kevin D. Pham, 2025 This article reconstructs a postcolonial theory of free speech from the Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm (NVGP), a free speech movement among intellectuals who proclaimed sup...

Check out my new article! “A Postcolonial Theory of Free Speech.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Kevin D. Pham Receives the 2025 Ralph J. Bunche Award for “The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization” - The Ralph J. Bunche Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. Citation from the [...]

Honored to receive the 2025 Ralph J. Bunche Award for my book! "This award honors the best book in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism and is given out annually by the American Political Science Association." politicalsciencenow.com/kevin-d-pham...

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Check out Inder Marwah’s thoughtful review my book, The Architects of Dignity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Remembering the Second Indochina War 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second Indochina War, popularly known as the Vietnam War. The war has left indelible impacts on the lives of many across the world, including those li...

“Remembering the Second Indochina War” May 23 at Spui25 in Amsterdam spui25.nl/programma/re...

“Taking Asian and African Agency Seriously” Kevin D. Pham

An essay in which I put my recent book into conversation with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously (Hurst 2022).

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How Vietnam earned its world-renowned anticolonial standing | Aeon Essays Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism is founded upon a unique sense of national shame

As the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches, I’ve been reflecting on what caused it. Here is one of those reflections, now published on Aeon. aeon.co/essays/how-v...

Will present my paper, “A Confucian-Marxist defense of free speech: How intellectuals argued against censorship in post-revolutionary Vietnam,” Wednesday April 2 on Zoom, 12pm-2pm (Eastern time)

“Freedom of expression in the history of political thought” Zoom link:
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Episode 173: Kevin Pham - The Architects of Dignity The Political Theory Review · Episode

Interviewed on The Political Theory Review open.spotify.com/episode/7h6W...

Kevin Pham: The architects of dignity: Vietnamese visions of decolonization - Contemporary Political Theory Contemporary Political Theory -

Very honored to have received this great review of my new book:

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Kevin D. Pham, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2024) by New Books in Political Science An interview with Kevin D. Pham

I did a New Books Network podcast interview about my new book, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford UP, 2024). player.megaphone.fm/NBNK8546233975

Examining the Role of Shame in Building a National Identity via Vietnam's Thinkers | Saigoneer “Shame, rather than pride, can be the basis for national identity… individuals may be motivated to move their country in a desirable direction when national shame outweighs pride.” ...

First review of my book! saigoneer.com/lo%E1%BA%A1t...

My book on varieties of Vietnamese anticolonialism is finally published. global.oup.com/academic/pro...