Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Christina Firpo, Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu.

Abstract

Forthcoming

About the Speaker

Christina Firpo is professor of Southeast Asian history at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She is the author of The Uprooted: Race, Imperialism, and Childhood in Indochina 1890-1980 (University of Hawaii Press, 2016); Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam 1920-1940 (Cornell University Press, 2020); and Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam (Columbia University Press, 2026).