François Guillemot is a research engi­neer at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in charge with the Vietnamese docu­men­ta­tion at the Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO, France). He recei­ved his doc­to­rate in History from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE, Paris) in 2003. His cur­rent research focu­ses on the poli­ti­cal and cultu­ral issues of the Vietnamese war and on Vietnamese non com­mu­nist natio­na­lism. In 2007, he orga­ni­zed with Agathe Larcher-Goscha and inter­na­tio­nal col­lo­quium entit­led “Bodily Identities in Vietnam: Transformations and Diversity” at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. He began to focus about the topic “Women and war” with the study of the role of the Youth Shock Brigades (TNXP) in the Vietnam war. He has publi­shed: Dai Viet, Independence and Revolution in Vietnam 1938-1955 : the Failure of the Third Way (Indes Savantes, 2012). (information from Femmes et Guerres website)

The collection presented on Virtual Saigon Project is from its numerous trips and missions in Saigon since 1993. Currently, François Guillemot is co-director of the project with Laurent Gédéon.