Teaching

Students in the Nahdlatul Wathan pesantren in Anjani, Lombok

In UNC’s Department of History, Dr. Fogg is an occasional instructor for two courses: HIST132 “Modern Southeast Asia,” and HIST 134 “Modern East Asia.” (These are also cross-listed in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Program in Peace, War, and Defense Studies.) At UNC, Dr. Fogg also assists with some co-curricular instruction, like the Indonesian Language Table.

Formerly in Oxford University’s Faculty of History, Dr. Fogg taught students on modern global history, Asian history, and Islamic history. The undergraduate subjects he taught included EWF 11 (transnational connections, 1750-1914), EWF 14 (global history, 1929-2003), the Further Subject on “Imperialism and Nationalism in Southeast Asia,” methodology papers “Approaches to History: Sociology” and “Disciplines of History,” and the graduate option on “History of Muslim Societies.” He also supervised undergraduate theses in the areas of Southeast Asian and Islamic history, including the geographic component of the 1969 race riots in Kuala Lumpur, the move of the Singaporean army away from British ties, British police perspectives on the Malayan Emergency, an analysis of the Weberian charisma of Ho Chi Minh, a critique of the presentation of race in Singaporean history textbooks, the persecution of the Khmer Krom under the Pol Pot regime, the intersection of Commonwealth and Cold War interests at the Bandung Conference, history of war memorials in Vietnam, and the communism of Gramsci and Tan Malaka compared.

For graduate students at Oxford, he supervised in the Global and Imperial History program, and assisted students in other faculties. Masters graduates mentored by Dr. Fogg studied topics such as the international networks of Indonesian nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, the social consequences of prostitution at an American naval base in the Philippines, and Muslim cosmopolitanism in World War I-era Britain. At the doctoral level, one graduate wrote on the role of Chinese traders in the initial conversion of Southeast Asian polities to Islam, a second wrote on the connected history of Burmese borderlands, and a third wrote on the local and national dynamics of leftist politics after independence.