Dr. Philip Taylor

Biography

Philip Taylor has lived and worked in Vietnam and Cambodia for ten years and is fluent in Vietnamese, Khmer, and French. He has held various consultancy, research, and teaching positions in Australia. He is an author and editor of books, refereed articles, and chapters focusing on contemporary Vietnamese society. Taylor teaches and supervises postgraduate students who are currently researching the Indochina War and the Mekong Delta. He served as the Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology from 2011 to 2016 and of the ANU Press Vietnam Series from 2015 to 2018. His administrative roles include being the HDR Coordinator at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies and Convener of the ANU Vietnam Updates. Taylor's notable awards include the EuroSEAS-Nikkei Asian Review Social Science Book Prize in 2015 and an ARC QEII Fellowship from 2006 to 2010. He has also held advisory positions on editorial boards for journals such as Vietnamese Studies, Ethnos, and Asian Studies Review. Over his career, he has supervised the completion of 31 PhD theses between 2004 and 2018 and has received ANU's 'top supervisor' award for two consecutive years.

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