Matthew Galway

Dr

Matthew Galway

Senior Lecturer
Ph.D (University of British Columbia), M.A. (University of Ottawa), B.Arts, Hons (University of Ottawa).
The Australian National University
History/Culture, History, and Language/College of Asia and the Pacific

Dr Galway (PhD, History, University of British Columbia, 2017) is an intellectual historian of modern China and Cambodia. His first book, The Emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979 (Cornell University Press, 2022), was a nominee for a range of awards, including the Reid Prize and the Jerry Bentley Prize. He is also first editor and contributor to Experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Cold War Southeast Asia (Australian National University Press, 2022). His research has been published in several journals, most recently The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Modern Intellectual History, and the Asian Journal of Women's Studies, and he is a frequent contributor to the Ear to Asia Podcast. Dr Galway is Editor-in-Chief of East Asian History, and his current book project is entitled Agents of Maoism: Overseas Chinese, Communist Spies, and Radicalism in Cambodia’s Global Sixties (in conversation with Cornell University Press, advanced contract).

Research Interest

Twentieth century Chinese history; The history of the Chinese Diaspora; The history of Chinese Cambodians; Chinese intellectual history; The history of the Chinese Communist Party; Global Maoism; Contemporary Cambodian history; The history of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge); Urban history and built environment in colonial Indochina

Contact Email

Matthew.Galway@anu.edu.au

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