Stan BH Tan-Tangbau

My most recent books are Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyen Van Minh and Jazz in Hanoi (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, Dec 2021) and Jazz in Socialist Hanoi: Improvisations between Worlds (London & New York: Routledge, Mar 2022). I am now finishing the next book, Ethnographic Panorama of A Transborder Railway Corridor: From Haiphong to Kunming. I am a Stay At Home Dad. I am also a Vietnamologist with specialization in ethnography and extended research interest on cultural narratives and political and social change across the Southeast Asian Massif. I have led international research projects and have published widely on: The Central Highlands of Vietnam; Dian-Viet Railway (Haiphong-Kunming); and Collaborative Digital Autoethnography. I devoted my entire early career to develop an original model of Collaborative Digital Autoethnography in the form of #kachinlifestories, a public digital ethnography project designed for the Kachin people. #kachinlifestories is created and mobilised under anthropological conditions of the globalising digital present. Today, #kachinlifestories has already become a formidable connector for anyone seeking an incredibly rich resource of living autoethnographic knowledge about the Kachin, and more importantly, for Kachin who wish to represent their own individual selves in a larger collage of being Kachin. It is a living knowledge base that is awaiting the next paradigm change in ethnography.

Companies

• James Cook University, Singapore Adjunct Faculty (2021)
• Stay-at-Home Dad Independent Researcher (2020)
• Associate Professor & Director of General Education Program VinUniversity (2019 — 2020)
• Hanoi Coordinator, School of Communication and Design RMIT University Vietnam (2017 — 2019)
• Independent Researcher Independent Researcher (2017 — 2017)
• Associate Professor Akita International University (2016 — 2017)
• Associate Professor Ritsumeikan University (2011 — 2016)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2006 — 2011)
• Senior Tutor National University of Singapore (2000 — 2006)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) The Australian National University (2002 — 2006)
• Master of Arts (M.A.) - By Research National University of Singapore (1998 — 2000)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Honours (2nd Upper) National University of Singapore (1997 — 1998)
• Bachelor's Degree National University of Singapore (1994 — 1997)
• GCE 'A'​ Level Anderson Junior College (1990 — 1991)
• GCE ‘O’ Level Hwa Chong Institution (1986 — 1989)