Haejeong Hazel Hahn, PhD

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Haejeong Hazel Hahn (she/her) was born in Seoul, Korea. She received her Ph.D at the University of California at Berkeley. She was recipient of the Chateaubriand Fellowship for doctoral research administered by the French Ministry of Education. Her scholarly fields are modern French cultural history and French colonial history in Vietnam and Cambodia. She is the author of Scenes of Parisian Modernity: Culture and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century (2009); co-editor (with Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Ken Tadashi Oshima and Peter Christensen) of Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent through History (2013), which was selected as a Choice’s Outstanding Academic Title in 2014; and editor of Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary: Global Encounters via Southeast Asia (2019). She works on the urban, cultural, and architectural history of Paris and of colonial Vietnam and colonial Cambodia. She also researches on travel and representations of the foreign, through the illustrated press, fiction, books on geography, travelogues, and other cultural artifacts.