Victor B. Lieberman (born 22 July 1945) is an American historian of early modern Southeast Asia and Eurasia.
[1] In 1984, he published a seminal work, Burmese Administrative Cycles: Anarchy and Conquest, c.1580–1760 (Princeton University Press), which profoundly impacted scholarship on mainland Southeast Asia through an analysis of alternating governance patterns in 16th- to 18th-century Burma.
4) claimed that "Lieberman's two-volume magnum opus is the most important work of history produced so far this century."
Lieberman graduated first in his class and summa cum laude from Yale University in 1967,[3] and was the recipient of the Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize as the highest ranking Bachelor of the Arts candidate.
[4] He obtained a PhD in Southeast Asian history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1976.