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After studying zoology and genetics at the University of Queensland, I worked  for two years as a marine biologist in Papua New Guinea. I then moved to Hong Kong where I taught high school maths and science. After travels in East and Southeast Asia, I worked in Laos for the US Agency for International Development as an agricultural extension officer. At the same time, I began reporting for United Press International. As a staff correspondent for UPI, I covered the Second Indochina War for three years, first in Laos and then in Vietnam (1965 and 1966). For the next five years I alternated between assignments for UPI (in France, Afghanistan and Bangladesh), freelancing, travelling and researching. After returning to Australia, I pursued my joint interests in the philosophy of history and Asian civilisations at the University of Queensland, where I eventually wrote my doctorate on “Evolutionary Theory of History”. After a career at UQ during which I published books and articles on Laos, Cambodia, Buddhism and China’s relations with Southeast Asia, I retired as Professor Emeritus and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 

Biographical articles and interviews

• “Serendipity, or discovering Lao history” in Nicholas Tarling, ed. Historians and Their Discipline: The Call of Southeast Asian History. Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (Monograph No. 40), 2007, 115-130. [PDF1] [PDF2].
• Interview included in Marc Yablonka, Tears across the Mekong. Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2016. [PDF]
• Jessica Harriden, “Martin Stuart-Fox: Evolution of a worldview” in Desley Goldston, ed., Engaging Asia: Essays on Laos and Beyond in Honour of Martin Stuart-Fox. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2019, pp. 1-16. [PDF]

Contact

Email: m.stuartfox@uq.edu.au
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