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VITAE

THAK CHALOEMTIARANA

Professor of Southeast Asian Studies

Asian Literature, Religion and Culture

The Graduate School

Cornell University

Publications and Papers:

In English:

Books:

Thai Politics: Extracts and Documents, 1932-1957, (Bangkok: Social Sciences

Association of Thailand, 1978)

Thailand: the Politics of Despotic Paternalism (Bangkok: Social Sciences

Association of Thailand, and Thai Khadi Institute of Thammasat University, 1979).

This book received the first Ohira Prize in 1985 named after the late Japanese

Prime Minister to honor outstanding books on Asia, the prize included a one

million Yen award. The book was also translated and published in Thai by Phanni

Chatphonlarak and M.R. Prakaithong Sirisuk in 1983, Thammasat University

Press, and after it won the Ohira prize it was translated and published in Japan by

Professor Yoshifumi Tamada of Kyoto University and marketed by Maruzen in

1989.

Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia

Program Publications, 2007); co-published in Thailand by Silkworm Press, 2007.

This second edition contains a new Introduction and Postscript. It has been

extensively edited, with new pictures, and an index. Reviewed in The Nation,

October 7, 2007.

Theses, articles, book chapters, and papers:

"GESTAPU: Catalyst for Revolution," M.A. Thesis, Chevalier Program of

Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College, 1968

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"The Sarit Regime, 1957-1963: the formative years of modern Thai politics," Ph.D.

dissertation, Department of Government, Cornell University, 1974

"The Evolution of the Monarchy and Government: Institutional Conflicts and

Change," Lauristan Sharp, ed., Asia, Asia Society, New York, Spring

1976

"The Overseas Chinese: Liability or Asset," review article of C.P. Fitzgerald, The

Overseas Chinese and Southeast Asia since 1945, (Australia: Longmans,

1973) in Problems of Communism, (March-April, 1977)

"Reflections on the Sarit Regime and the Process of Political Change in Thailand--

Some Conceptual and Theoretical Reassessments," Tonan Ajia Kenkyu

(Southeast Asian Studies Journal, Kyoto, Japan), XVI (December 1978)

"The Political Thought of Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat: A Paternalistic Political

System," Review of Social Sciences, 1977

"Thai political philosophy, power, and legitimacy," paper presented to the faculty

of CSEAS, Kyoto University, August 7, 1979

"Professionalism in the Modern Thai Army," paper presented at the Conference on

Political Systems and Development, Indian Council of Social Research,

New Delhi, India, February, 1980

“Thai political development and the role of the military,” three lectures delivered at

the University of Missouri, Columbia, November 1980

"Promising but Reluctant: Southeast Asian Studies in Thailand," with Sombat

Chantornwong in Tunku Shamsul Bahrin, et. al., A Colloquium on

Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,

1981), pp. 171-184.

"Thailand: Political Crisis of the 1980's," a paper presented at the Asia Society,

New York, March 1981

"The Rise and Fall of the Thai Young Turks," a review article of Chaianan

Samudvanija, The Thai Young Turks, (Singapore: ISEAS, 1982) in Tonan

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Ajia Kenkyu, XXI, (June 1983)

Contributor to Thailand section on "Thai politics, history, and literature," nineteen

entries in Ainslee Embree, ed., Encyclopedia of Asian History, (New

York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1985)

"The Pacific Era Begins," Look Japan, (October 10, 1985)

"Asian Americans in College Admissions," paper presented at the New York

Association of College Admissions Counselors Conference, Plattsburg,

NY, June 2, 1986

“Weighing the Balance: Southeast Asian Studies in the US” SSRC publication,

January 2000

“Tribute to George McTurnan Kahin,” Indonesia, April 2000

“Towards a more inclusive national narrative: Thai history and the Chinese, Isan

and the nation state” in Luem khotngao Kaw Phao Phaenadin, Kanjanee

Laongsi and Thanet Apornsuwan, eds., (Bangkok: Matichon Press, 2001)

pp. 64-110.

“Southeast Asian Studies in the United States,” in the conference program of the

First Biennial Conference of Indian Association for Asian and Africa

studies, Calcutta, March 1-3, 2002.

“Move over Madonna: Luang Wichit Wathakan’s Huang Rak Haew Luk,” in

James Siegel and Audrey Kahin, ed., Southeast Asia Across Three

Generations (Ithaca: SEAP publications, 2003).

“Khru Liam’s Khwam Mai Phayabat (1915) and the Problematics of Thai

Modernity”, paper presented at the Ambiguous Allure of the West

Conference, Cornell University, November 5-7, 2004. A revised version

of this paper is published in Southeast Research Journal, Volume 19,

2009.

Keynote address: Prospects for Southeast Asian Studies, Annual Taiwan

Conference of Southeast Asian Studies, Jinan University, April 28, 2005,

in Asia Pacific Forum, 28 (June 2005), pp. 287-306

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“Khru Liam’s Nang Neramid: Siamese Fantasy, Rider Haggard’s She, and the

Divine Egyptian Nymph,” Southeast Asia Research Journal, Volume 15,

no. 1, 2007.

“Distinctions with a Difference: The Despotic Paternalism of Sarit Thanarat and

the Demagogic Authoritarianism of Thaksin Shinnawat,” Crossroads, 19:1

(2007), pp. 50-94.

“Making New Space in the Thai Literary Canon,” Journal of Southeast Asian

Studies, volume 40 (February 2009), pp. 87-110.

“Are We Them?: literary and textual representation of the Chinese in 20th century

Thailand,” Kyoto Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, forthcoming in the

December, 2014 issue.

Book reviews and articles: manuscript referee for the Institute of Southeast Asian

Studies, Singapore; University of Washington Press; Journal of Asian Studies;

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; SEAP publications, Cornell University;

Thammasat University Press; Thai Textbook Project Foundation; Oxford

University Press.

Claude E. Welch Jr. and Arthur K, Smith, Military Role and Rule (Duxbury Press,

1974) in Journal of Siam Society (July, 1974), pp. 327-330.

C. P. Fitzgerald, China and Southeast Asia since 1945, and G. Alexander, Invisible

China, in Problems of Communism, 26 (2), 75-79, 1977

R. Krannich, Mayors and Managers in Thailand–the struggle for political life in

Administrative setting, in Pacific Affairs, 53 (1): 165-167, 1980

John Girling, Thailand: Society and Politics, (Cornell Univ Press, 1981) in the

Journal of Asian Studies, 1982, pp 216-218.

Review article of Chaianan Samudavanija, The Rise and Fall of the Thai Young

Turks, (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1982), in Journal of Southeast Asian

Studies (Kyoto), June 1983, pp. 130-135

B.J. Terwiel, A History of Modern Thailand, (University of Queensland Press,

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1984) in The Journal of Asian and African Studies, XIX, 1984 pp. 290-292.

Bruce Missingham, Assembly of the Poor in Thailand: From Local Struggles to

National Protest Movement (Chiangmai: Silkworm Press, 2003), in Journal of

Asian Studies, August 2005, pp. 800-802.

Mike Montesano and Patrick Jory, eds. Thai South Malay North (Singapore: NUS

Press, 2008) in Journal of Siam Society, volume 97, 2009.

Review article of Susan Fulop Kepner, A Civilized Woman: M.L. Boonlua

Debyasuvarn and the thai Twentieth Century (Chiangmai: Silkwork Press, 2013) in

the New Mandala website, November 21, 2013

Panels, lectures, interviews: served as speaker and discussant at the AAS, Thai

Conferences, and at various universities on modern Thai politics and Southeast

Asian Studies

Most recently:

“From the Uniform to the Business Suit,” Cornell Adult University, July 21, 1989

“Aspects of Recent Thai Politics,” Thailand Seminar, June 10, 1991

“Suchinda Coup: a rehashing of the 1957 proclamations” Cornell University, May

1992

"Southeast Asian Americans," NY state teacher training, Ithaca, June 1993

“Window to SEAsia,” Onondaga Community College, October 22, 1993

"Opening remarks," "Thai cuisine and cooking," NY state teacher training, Ithaca,

July 1995

“Thai politics and the end of the Riggsian bureaucratic polity,” guest lectures in

Ben Anderson’s course on the Government and Politics of Southeast Asia, Fall

1995

“Power and Legitimacy in Thai politics” Thailand Seminar, March 27, 1996

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"Applying to U.S. universities," Thai government scholars conference,

Washington D.C., June 1995, Scranton, June 1996

"Southeast Asian Studies: new intersections and dead ends," Kahin Center,

Cornell, January 30, 1997

"Roundtable discussion of Thai politics," AAS, Chicago, March 14, 1997

"Thai Political Economy: a view from abroad," Liberal Arts Forum, Thammasat

University, Bangkok, September 10, 1997

"Thailand's soap suds economy: the economic crisis of July 1997," Kahin Center,

Cornell, February 19, 1998

"SEAP: past, present, and future," Kahin Center, Cornell, September 3, 1998

Panel Participant “ Establishing a Center for Khmer Studies,” Phnom Penh and

Siemreap, Cambodia, January 10-15, 1999

“Thai History, Local Narrative, Monuments and Civil Community in Khonkaen,”

Kahin Center, Cornell University, September 16, 1999.

“The nationalism of Phibun and Sarit: the nation state, fascism, atavism and

phatthana”, guest lecture in History 396, April 24, 2000

Commentator, US Elections. November 7, 2000. Voice of America and Thai TV

Channel 9.

Report on future strategies for the Center for Khmer Studies, Siemreap, January

17, 2001

“The January 6 Thai national elections: Miami (Dade) vice, civil society and the

new leadership,” Kahin Center, Cornell, February 15, 2001

Interview on Singapore radio about the new Thai government, February 2001

Panel chair, papers on Southeast Asia, NY Conference for Asian Studies, Cornell

University, October 26. 2001

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Opening remarks “(Receding) Memories of Southeast Asia as a field of study,”

Graduate Student Symposium on the Place of Memory in Southeast Asia, Cornell

University, March 30, 2002.

“Thai American Studies: promising directions and dead ends,” Kahin Center,

Cornell University, September 2002.

“Southeast Asian Studies and the future of Area Studies in the US,” Thammasat

University, January 6, 2003

Interview focused on the current political situation in Thailand, The Nation,

January 6, 2003

Interview by William Choong, The Straits Times, August 27, 2003. Elections in

Southeast Asia.

Panel: “The current political and economic situation in Thailand,” Central

Intelligence Agency, September 10, 2003

“The First Modern Thai Novels: Trash or Treasure?” Kahin Center, Cornell

University, April 22, 2004.

“Your education and the Alpha Phi Beta Fraternity,” speech to resident brothers,

University of the Philippines, January 12, 2005

“Forty years after and the search for meaning,” Alpha Phi Beta Chancery meeting,

Manila, January 12, 2005

“Philippine higher education and the development of Thailand,” San Francisco Del

Monte Rotary Club meeting, Club Filipino, Greenhills, Manila, January 13, 2004

“Southeast Asian Studies in the United States,” address to participants of the

Mekhong Project, Nongkhai, Thailand, March 11, 2005

“Sarit and Thaksin,” Fa Diaw Kan, 3:2 (April-June, 2005), pp.48-58. Also in

same volume is a review article on Kanmuang Rabob Phokhun Uppatham.

“Institutionalizing Southeast Asian Studies in the Academy,” Academia Sinica,

Taiwan, April 25, 2005

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Keynote lecture in Thai “Reminiscing about Despotic Paternalism,”

Chulalongkorn University, May 11, 2005

“The Genesis and Critique of the Politics of Despotic Paternalism,” Chulalongkorn

UIniversity radio interview, May 16, 2005

“Icons of Success: the filthy rich, the incredibly gorgeous, and the pathetically

comical—a study of contemporary Thai autobiographies,” Kahin Center, Cornell

University, September 1, 2005.

Interview: Political crisis and the April 2, 2006 elections in Thailand, Francisca

Enriques, Publico newspaper, Portugal. March 28, 2006

“Contours of Southeast Asian studies and the conceptualization of its region-ness,”

and “Contemporary Thai politics,” lecture for Luce Foundation Scholars, Prospect

House, Princeton University, August 23, 2006

“Through (Siamese) Racing Goggles: modernity, the West, and Ambiguous

Siamese Alterities, Kahin Center, Cornell University, September 7, 2006

“The September 19, 2006 coup d’etat in Thailand” – interviews on Bloomberg TV;

“air talk” on KPCC radio in Los Angeles; CBS news; WWRL radio in New York;

KQED radio in San Francisco; interviewed by the NY office of the Japan External

Trade Organization.

“Setting the Thai coup in the context of Thai political culture”, Uris Hall, Cornell

University, September 22, 2006.

“Is the Thai coup a good coup?” Alice Cook House, Cornell University, October

17, 2006.

“Paul Handley’s book and lese majeste in Thailand,” interview by Kim Martineau,

the Hartford Current newspaper, October 18, 2006

“The Development and Evolution of Thai Studies in the United States,”

Conference on Thailand-U.S. Relations, organized by the Royal Thai Embassy,

Washington, D.C. May 9-10, 2007

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“Nang Neramid: Siam’s Second Authentic Thai Novel—a soft-porn Egyptian

adventure,” Kahin Center, September 6, 2007

“Background to the crisis in Burma,” Convener’s opening remarks at the

Roundtable discussion on the Buddhist Monks protest in Burma, Kahin Center,

October 4, 2007

Interview on the New Mandala website, November, 2007

“Autobiographies of the Rich, the Gorgeous, and the Comical: iconic achievers in

contemporary Thai society,” Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of

Wisconsin, Madison, November 30, 2007

“Bucking the Thai Literary Canon: the significance of pre-1929 translated,

original, and imitation novels,” Keynote address, Council of Thai Studies

Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 1, 2007.

“Three very early Thai novels: vernacularization, authenticity, hybridity, mimesis,

and bi-culturalism,” pre conference lecture (10th

International Thai Studies

Conference) at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, January 7, 2008

Interview by David Fullbrook, Review Asia, “The new Samak government,”

February 18, 2008

“The culture of decisive (det khat) crisis management and its relationship to state

violence in Thai politics,” panel on Scandalous Hypotheses, the Association for

Asian Studies conference, Atlanta, April 6, 2008

“Thailand: highlights of Thai political evolution and thoughts about the future,”

Executive Seminar on Thailand, The Meridian International Center, Washington,

D.C., November 8, 2010

“Reimagining Cornell,” Thai Cornell Alumni Association, RBSC Bangkok,

January 29, 2011.

Email interview with Nick Thompson, CNN, “Songkran Festival and its

significance,” April 13, 2011

Email interview with Martin Petty, Reuters, “Elections of July 3, 2011” June 2,

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2011

Interview email response to Xu Jingjing, Life Week (Beijing, China), “Yingluck

Shinawat as prime minister,” July 8, 2011

“Thai Foreign Policy,” Model UN Club, Ithaca College, November 15, 2011

“Tensions and Fissures in Contemporary Thailand,” SMART 2012 orientation,

Cornell University, November 18, 2011

Discussant, “Politics of Criticism,” Kahin Center, Cornell University, November,

2012.

“Thai literature and the evolution of Sino-Thai identity”, Center for Southeast

Asian Studies, Kyoto University, January 11, 2013

Email interview, Zou Shan, Sanlian Lifeweek magazine (China), “Root cause of

the anti-government demonstrations,” November 30, 2013

Email interview, Robert Birsel, Thomsonreuters, “Role of king in resolving the

current anti-government demonstrations,” December 5, 2013

Email interview, Robert Birsel, Thomsonreuters, “Martial law and its

implications,” May 20, 2014

Interview, Sam Oakford, UN correspondent, Inter Press Service “Interpreting the

declaration of martial law,” May 20, 2014

In Thai:

Books:

Translation editor, The Making of Malaysia and Singapore, by N.J. Ryan,

(Bangkok: Thai Textbook Project Foundation, 1983)

Kanmuang Rabob Phokhun Uppatham Baeb Phadetkan, (Bangkok: Thammasat

University Press, 1983), Phanni Chatphonlarak and M.R. Prakaithong Sirisuk,

translators. This is a translation of my Thailand: The Politics of Despotic

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Paternalism. I was the translation editor.

Kanmuang Rabob Phokhun Uppatham Baeb Phadetkan, (Bangkok: Thai Textbook

Foundation for the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2005). This second edition

was edited by Thamrongsak Petchlertanan. It contains a new introduction,

postscript and pictures. It was chosen as one of three texts published to

commemorate the 72nd

anniversary of the 1932 Revolution that overthrew Thai

absolute monarchy.

Aan jon taek: wannakam, khwam thansamai, lae khwam pen thai, (Bangkok: Aan

Publications, forthcoming)

Articles, lectures and book chapters:

"Silatham khong khon numsao lae panha songkhram wietnam," Sangkhomsat

Parithat/Social Science Review, 8:2 (September-November, 1970), pp.

44-48

Vietnam War Chronology, with Charnwit Kasetsiri, Supplement no. 4,

Sangkhomsat Paritat/Social Sciences Review,1970

“Silatham lae songkhram wietnam,” Khiengkhlung, 1:3 (October 8, 1970), pp. 2-6.

“Khohkhit chak ithaka,” Khiengkhlung, 1:4 (December 10, 1971), pp. 12-14.

“Fa Soong Phaendin Tam,” Sangkhomsat Paritat/Social Sciences Review, 8:4

(March-May, 1971), pp. 125-127.

"Analysis of the Politics of the Philippines," Political Science Review, VII (April,

1972)

"Nixon kap kanmuang rawang prathet phaen mai," Chaoban, I (June, 1972), pp.

19-26.

"Mai mi prachathippatai eak laew nai filipin," Khiengkhlung, 2:4 (January, 1973),

pp. 34-41

"Kanmuang thai yuk pachuban," Khiengkhlung, 3:1 (September, 1973), pp. 14-21.

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"Rizal Bonifacio Aguinaldo khrai khu wirachon khong filipin?" in Suchard

Sawatsi, ed., Wirachon Asia, (Bangkok: Social Sciences Association of

Thailand, 1974), this was banned and confiscated by the Thanin

government.

“Life in the University” in Ongkan Naksuksa Mahawitthayalai Thammasat, Khon

Run Mai (Bangkok: Thammasat University 1975)

"Chinese Politics: The Academic Biases of Political Scientists," a review article in

Thammasat Journal, VI (June-September, 1976)

"Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat's Political Philosophy," in Sombat Chantornwong

and Rungsan Thanapornphan, eds., Rak Muangthai, (Bangkok: Thai

Watthanapanich Press, 1976)

"The People's Republic of China: Leadership Crisis and Ideological Conflicts,"

Thammasat Journal, VI (February-May 1977)

"Modern Chinese Political Issues: the Elite, Factionalization, and Class Conflict,"

Journal of Political Science, V (November 1978)

"Botkhwam phue klom phi komunit hai lap," Khiengkhlung, 7:1 (March, 1981),

pp. 1-10.

"Internal Security Operations Command and Communist Suppression,"

Thammasat Journal, 1982

“Short biography of Khun Mae Phensi Chaloemtiarana,” Royal sponsored

cremation volume, September 27, 2001

“Rizal, Bonifacio, Aguinaldo: Khrai Khu Wirachon Khong Filipin” in Suchart

Sawatsi, ed., Wirachon Asia, (Bangkok: 5 Area Studies Project, 2002), pp

149-175. This is a republication with a new postscript.

“Khwam Mai Phayabat Khong Khru Liam lae Khwam Than Samai Khong Thai

Thi Pen Panha” Rathasatsan Journal, Volume 28, no. 2, (May-August,

2007), pp. 63-112.

“Nang Neramid: Thepthida Egypt Ruang Phet Lae Khwan Phoefan Khong Phuchai

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Nai Nawaniyay Thai Yuk Raek” Rathasatsan Journal, Volume 29, no.1,

(January-April, 2008), pp. 1-37

“Boh kerd jitsamnuk kanmuang lae sangkhom khong nakrian nok,” lecture

discussion with members of Cornell Thai Student Association, March 7,

2008.

“History and literature—the representation of Chineseness,” Department of

History, Faculty of Letters, Chulalongkorn University, January 23, 2013

“Rao chai khao? Chinese representations in 20th

century Thai texts and fiction,”

Aan Literary Journal, vol.5, no 2, January-April, 2014, pp. 188-198.

“Move over Madonna: Luang Wichit’s Huang Rak Haew Luk” Aan Literary

Journal, forthcoming.

Review article: “ML Bunlua—A Civilized Woman” Aan Literary Journal, vol.5,

no. 3, May-August, 2014.

Book reviews in Warasan Thammasat, Ratthasatsan

Dissertation and Thesis Supervision

Graduate:

Atcharaporn Kumutpisamai, M.A., "R.S. 130 Rebellion," Chulalongkorn

University, 1981. Published as monograph by Amarin Press, 1997.

Wichawat Issaraphakdi, Ph.D., "The Man in Khaki--Debaser or Developer: The

Thai Military in Politics with particular reference to the 1976-1985 period," The

Fletcher School, Tufts University, 1988 (external reader).

Michael Montesano, M.A., "Local Knowledge of Another Sort," Department of

Agriculture Economics, Cornell University, 1992 (SEAsia minor committee

member).

James Ockey, Ph.D., "Business Leader, Gangsters, and the Middle Class,"

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Government Department, Cornell University, 1992 (SEAsia minor committee

member).

Kasian Tejapira, Ph.D., "Commodifying Marxism: the formation of modern Thai

radical culture, 1927-1958," Government Department, Cornell University, 1992

(substitute SEAsian minor committee member and examiner).

David Mark Fineman, Ph.D., "The Unified States and Military Government in

Thailand 1947-1958," Department of History, Yale University, 1993 (external

reader). Published as monograph by U of Hawaii press.

Shelle Grimm, M.A., "Shifting Identities: Khmer Refugees Women's and

Children's Identity Formation in American Society," Cornell University, 1996

(committee chair).

Lesley O'Malley, M.A., "Vietnam's Relations with ASEAN," Asian Studies,

Cornell University, 1996 (committee chair).

Bacharee Phuengphak, M.A. "Thai Foreign Policy Towards Laos," Asian Studies,

Cornell University, 1998 (committee chair)

Tida Sukeelap, M.A. "Thai Foreign Policy Towards Vietnam, 1979-1989," Asian

Studies Department, Cornell univeristy, 1998 (committee chair)

Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy, M.A. "Thai US relations and the Vietnam War," Asian

Studies, Cornell University, 1999

Richard Ruth, M.A. "The Seri Thai and the Chinese connection," Asian Studies,

Cornell University, 1999

Nicole Marie Jyringi, M.A. "The Mail Order Bride as Veiled Resistance: An

Exploration into the Experiences of Women involved in the International

Matchmaking Industry, " (thesis examiner) Asian Studies, Cornell, January 2000

Tranai Tanngamtrong, Master of Architecture "Yan: Heterogenity of the Siamese

Community and the Diversity of Urban Commerce in Bangkok," Cornell, 2000

Wipas Wimonsate, M.A. Urban Planning, "Planning the Rattanakosin Area for

both tourists and Residents," Cornell, 2000

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Yasue Nakagawa, M.A. Asian Studies, “Filipino overseas workers in Japan” 2002

Worrasit Tantinipankun, PhD Historic Preservation, 2007 “Maintaining Thainess

and preservation of temples in the Rattanakosin Island”

Siri Tumpunyawat, MA Architecture, “Design proposal to develop the Ratanakosin

Island,”2002

Jason Picard, “Vietminh Economics and the antecedents,” (thesis examinier) MA

Asian Studies, 2003

Tomas Larson, Ph D Government, 2007 “Capitalizing Thailand: Colonialism,

Communism, and the Political Economy of Rural Land Rights”

Jane Ferguson, PhD Anthropology, 2008: dissertation on the commodification of

media along the Thai-Burma border.

Adam Diaz, MA Asian Studies, “Organizing a union by Filipina nurses in New

Jersey” (Committee Chair), 2004

Aki Funahashi, MA Asian Studies (Committee Chair), 2004

Stephen Carroll, MA Asian Studies (Committee Chair), 2004

Tyrell Haberkorn, PhD Anthropology, 2007 “The Knowledge of Violence:

solidarity, repression, and historiography in northern Thailand”

Richard Ruth, PhD History, 2007 “In Buddha’s Company: Thailand’s experience

in the Vietnam War, 1967-1972”

Jennifer Foley, PhD History of Art (dissertation examiner), 2004

Samson Lim, PhD History, 2011: dissertation research on the Thai police and legal

system during the 1950’s and 1960’s

Noppamas Suttinun, MA Asian Studies (Committee Chair), 2006

Rizal Siddik, MA Asian Studies (Committee Chair), “The Chinese Question in

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Indonesian politics,” 2006

Joseph Stevens (Committee Chair), 2007

Moojalin Sudcharoen, MA Asian Studies (Committee Member), “Commodifying

Karma: Abortion discourses and Kaekam Practices in Thai society,” 2013

Chairat Polmuk, MA Asian Studies (Committee Member), “Invoking the Past: the

cultural politics of Lao literature, 1941-1975,” 2014

Nguyet Tong, MA Asian Studies (Committee Member), “The Censorship

Interface: Thai television lakhon,” 2014

Rebecca Townsend, PhD History

Undergraduate:

Nuntica Tanasugarn, "The Khmer Rouge in Thai Foreign Policy," Asian Studies

Department, Cornell University, 1991.

Stuart Liventhals, "The Economic Impact of AIDS in Thailand," Asian Studies

Department, Cornell University, 1994.

Vaddey Ayuravann Ratner, "Phka Srabon: a Khmer Novel," Asian Studies

Department, Cornell University, 1996.

Candice Chan, “Education and national development in Singapore,” College

Scholar Program, Cornell University, 2002

Monica Pangalinan, “Filipino food as a window into the understanding of

identity,” College Scholar Program, Cornell University, 2003

Courses taught:

At Cornell:

1. Intensive Thai language (native speaker/informant).

2. Thai Political Novels (graduate reading course in the vernacular)

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3. Seminar on Thailand: lectures on modern politics, legitimacy and power, the

military in politics

4. Guest lectures in Government and Politics of Southeast Asia

5. Introduction to Southeast Asia

6. Supervised readings on topics related to Thai studies

7. College Scholar and honors supervised reading courses

8. Southeast Asia field seminar

9. Seminar on Contemporary Thailand (with Tamara Loos)

At Thammasat Univesity (also at Chulalongkorn and Silapakorn Universities):

1. Political Elite and the Masses: seminar for seniors

2. Thai Civilization–a foundations course for freshmen

3. The Government and Politics of China (two courses pre-1949, and the other post

1949). Although Chinese politics is not my specialty I taught these two courses

because there was intense student demand during the open period of Thai political

life. I published a few articles in Thai so my students can have something to read.

Later, I was invited with a group of Thai professors by the Chinese National

Academy to visit the People's Republic of China after the fall of the "Gang of

Four" to meet with Chinese professors and Party leaders (May 8 - 23, 1978).

4. Politics, Social Change, and the Military

5. Seminar on the field of Comparative Politics

Research interests:

Modern Thai politics (1930-present); Thai political novels (first half of the 20th

century) with a focus on postcolonial and translation theories; Thai intellectual

history especially the construction of identity, gender and sexuality in Thai

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literature; the Thai community in America including Thai Buddhist temples in

America; Southeast Asian studies in general.

Language competency: Thai, English, and spoken Cantonese; languages studied

for research purposes: French, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Indonesian

Personal Information

Education:

Management Training certificate (WACUBO), Stanford University, 1986

Ph.D. (Government: comparative politics, international relations, Southeast Asian

studies), Cornell University, 1974

MA (Government), Cornell University, 1971

MA (Diplomacy and World Affairs), Occidental College, Los Angeles, 1968

BS (Foreign Service), cum laude, University of the Philippines, 1965

School certificate, Diocesan Boys' School, Hong Kong, 1962

Fellowships and Awards:

University and College Scholar, Graduate School Entrance Scholar (University of

Philippines), 1962-1966; Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society, 1965; Pi

Gamma Mu Social Science Honor Society, 1965; Outstanding Alphan, Alpha Phi

Beta Law Fraternity, 1965; Haines Graduate Fellowship (Occidental College),

1966-1968; Phi Beta Kappa Fellowship (Southern California Chapter), 1967;

Teaching and Research Assistantships (Cornell), 1968-1969; Rockefeller

Foundation Fellowship, 1969-1974; London-Cornell Field Research Fellowship,

1971; Cornell Southeast Asia Program Fellowship, 1973; Ford Foundation

Exchange Professor at the University of the Philippines, 1975 (declined); Asian

Scholar in Residence at UCSD, Council for International Exchange of Scholars,

1978 (declined); Post-doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, 1980-1981, Social

Science Research Council; Winner of the 1st Ohira Memorial Prize, 1985 for the

book Thailand: the politics of despotic paternalism; Blue blazer award for lifetime

achievement, Alpha Phi Beta Fraternity, East Coast Chapter, 2009.

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Employment history and appointments:

2013-2018 Graduate School Professor of Asian literature, religion and culture

2012 International Advisory Committee member, Sojourn: Journal of

Social Issues in Southeast Asia

2010 Trustee Emeritus, Center for Khmer Studies

2010-2015 Graduate School Professor of Asian Studies

2008-2010 Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Department of Asian Studies

1998-2010 Director, Southeast Asia Program

2003-2010 Chair, scholarship committee, Center for Khmer Studies

2002 Member, AS Dean’s advisory committee on admissions and fin aid

2002-2010 Trustee of the Center for Khmer Studies

2001-2004 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Asian Studies

2004-2008 Chair, contract and promotion review committee for SEA language

faculty

2000-2002 Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Khmer Studies

2000-2001 Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Field of Asian Studies

1998-2001 Member, Admissions committee, College of Arts and Sciences

1998-2001 Member, Academic Records Committee, College of Arts and

Sciences

1996-1998 Associate Director, Southeast Asia Program

1996-2007 Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies

1995-1996 Steering Committee Member, Cornell Southeast Asia Program

1993-1997 Dean of Seniors, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University

1991-1998 Co-chair, Academic Records Committee, College of Arts and

Sciences

1991-2000 Chair, Language House Board, Cornell University

1991-1997 Executive Committee Member, Cornell Southeast Asia Program

1986-1999 Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University

1986-1998 Director, Arts and Sciences Admissions, Cornell University

1985-1986 Acting Director, Arts and Sciences Admissions, Cornell University

1983-1996 Adjunct Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Cornell University

1983-1986 Associate Director, Arts and Sciences Admissions

1982-1983 Assistant Director, Arts and Sciences Admissions

1981-1982 Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University

1980-1983 Visiting Fellow, Cornell Southeast Asia Program

1980 Deputy Government Spokesman, Kingdom of Thailand

1979-1980 Associate Professor of Political Science, Thammasat University,

Bangkok, Thailand

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1978-1979 Visiting Research Scholar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies,

Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

1976-1979 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Thammasat University

1974-1975 Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University,

Bangkok

1969 Thai Language instructor, SEA Summer Language Program, Yale

University

1968-1969 Thai Language Teaching Assistant, Cornell University

1968-1969 Research Assistant, Government Department, Cornell University

1966-1968 Library Assistant, Occidental College

Professional Service and affiliations:

At Cornell (1980-present)

External reviewer, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Washington,

December, 2009

External review team member, Asian Studies at Colgate University, March 27-29,

2008

Headed fund drive for the Kahin Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, 2007

External reviewer, MA program in Southeast Asian studies, UC Riverside, 2005

Trustee, Center for Khmer Studies, 2000 to 2010

Fellowship (Luce and CAORC) committee chair, Center for Khmer Studies, 2004

to 2010

Fulbright National Review committee, 2002-2004, 2006

Fulbright Faculty Associate to host fellows at Cornell

Member, IIE review team for Khonkaen Program, July 10-16, 1999

Undergraduate Adviser, SEAsia concentration, Department of Asian Studies,

1993-1999

Affiliated member, Asian American Studies Program

Member, Provost's Recruitment and Admissions Advisory Board

Residence Life Committee, Student Assembly

Employee Education Committee, University Assembly

Hearing Board, University Assembly,1991-1995

Ithaca Theatre Guild board member, 1993-1994

Advisory Committee on the Status of Minorities

Minority Faculty Staff Forum

NY Association of College Admissions Counselors

National Association of College Admissions Counselors

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Faculty Adviser, Asian American Coalition

Faculty Adviser, Thai Students Association, 1983 to present

Faculty Adviser, Organization of ASEAN students

At Thammasat University (1974-1980)

Editorial board member, Social Science Review, 1975-1977

Executive board member, Thai Textbook Project Foundation, 1974-1980

Editorial board member, Thai Textbook Project Foundation Bulletin, 1975

Elected member, Faculty Senate, 1975-1976

Chairman, Academic Committee, Faculty Senate, 1976

Member, Academic Advisory Board to Rector, 1975-1976

Member, university faculty promotions review committee, 1976

Member, Asian Studies Committee, 1976

Chairman, political science faculty promotions review committee, 19775-1977

Member, political science curriculum committee, 1975-1977

Chairman, Southeast Asian Studies project, 1976

Vice chair, political science research committee, 1977

Thai academic delegate to the People’s Republic of China, May 1978

Delegate, ASEAN Dialogue, Odawara, Japan, 1979

Chairman, University Textbook Promotion Committee 1979-1980

Executive board member, Thammasat University Press, 1979-1980

Executive board member, Social Science Association of Thailand, 1979-1980

English editor, Social Science Association of Thailand, 1970-1980

Hobbies: collecting Asian pottery and artifacts, antique cameras; fly fishing, fly

tying and collecting fishing equipment and books; collecting vintage Gibson and

Fender guitars, and Fender amplifiers; high performance sports car driving.

Extra-curricular activities:

Porsche Club of America, Central New York Region: Safety Chair, 1994-96; Vice

President, 1996-2000; President, 2001-2004; monthly columnist "Mr. Safety

Tipps” 1994-1996, "CNY Vice" 1996-2000 “PC Thak” 2000-2004, “PPP Thak”

2006-2012 in The Redline Report region newsletter; Region and Zone One Porsche

Club of America high performance driving instructor; national mentor for Drivers

Education instructor certification program; vehicle technical inspector.

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Sports Car Club of America: Solo II board member 1995-96, 1996-97; Licenses

held: divisional scrutineer license; Solo II safety steward; Solo II driving

instructor; sound control.

Updated July 2014