THONGCHAI WINICHAKUL Professor of History Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706, USA Office Phone (608) 263-8931; Fax (608) 263-5302; Email – [email protected]
EDUCATION 1988 Ph.D. University of Sydney, Australia 1984 M.A. (Honors), University of Sydney, Australia. 1981 B.A. (First Class Honors), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
AWARDS AND HONORS 2004 Grand Prize for the Asia Pacific Book Award, the Asian Affairs Research Council, Japan 2003 Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, class of 2003 1994/95 The John Simon Guggenheim Award 1995 The Harry J. Benda Award, Association for Asian Studies, for the book Siam Mapped.
CAREER POSITIONS 2001-present Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1995-2001 Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1991-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1988-1991 Lecturer at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES At University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History 2006-08 Budget Committee, Department of History 1996-98, 2000-02 Graduate Council, Department of History 2001-02 Fellowship Committee, Department of History 1993-95, 2004-06 Undergraduate Council, Department of History 1997-99 Council for Areas and International Studies, the International Institute 1997-99 Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) 2000-07 Chair, Visiting Southeast Asian Scholars Program, CSEAS 1994, 96-98, 2000-04, 2006-08 Fellowship Committee, CSEAS 1992-94, 97-99, 2001-03 Admission Committee, CSEAS 2002-04, 2008-09 Selection Committee, Institute for Research in the Humanities 1997-2002 A principal investigator of the Legacies of Authoritarianism Project, 1997-2003 Steering Committee, the Borders and Transcultural Studies, International Institute, 1999-02 Advisory board of the project “Digital Asia Library” (funded by Title VI, DOE) 1997-99 Program Committee, International Convocation for the Sesquicentennial of UW 1993/94 Faculty Senate Other professional organizations 2007 Review Committee of Department of Southeast Asian Studies and Department of Malay Studies, the National University of Singapore 2006-08 Academic Advisory Committee, the 10th International Conference on Thai Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok, January 2008 2005 Review Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, evaluate the FASS performance and research in Southeast Asian studies 2004-05 Program Committee for the 9th International Conference on Thai Studies, at Northern Illinois University in April 2005 1999-2001 Program Committee for the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies 1999/2000 Special program committee for the “Border-Crossing” panels at the AAS annual meeting. 1997-2000 The Harry J Benda Prize Committee, Association for Asian Studies, Chair in 1999/2000 1996/97 Executive Board, Association for Asian Studies (USA) 1996-97 Selection Committee for the SSRC dissertation fellowship 1994-97 Elected member, Southeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, Chair 1996/97 1994, 95, 97 Southeast Asia Council (SEAC-AAS) 1994-95, 98-99, 2002-03, 2006-07 Co-President, Council on Thai Studies (COTS), USA. Organizer of its annual meetings 1989-90 Executive Board, Historical Society, Thailand, Assistant Editor of the Society's journal. 1989-91 Academic Committee, the Social Science Association of Thailand
CURRENT TEACHING Undergraduate: History of Southeast Asia to 1800; Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asian History; Graduate and Undergraduate seminars: various topics -- Orientalism: the Orients in Our Knowledge; Politics and Culture in Modern Thai History; Remembering Traumatic Past in Thailand; Issues in Southeast Asian History Before 1800; Nations and Nationalism; History and Theory on Geography at Work in History
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2006/07 Small grant, Thailand Research Fund 2006/07, 1996 Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison 2006, 02, 01, 1996, 93, 92 Graduate School Research Grants, UW-Madison 2003 Faculty Development Grant (UW system) 2001/02 Graduate School and the International Institute grants, UW-Madison, 1999-2001 Vilas Associates Fellowship, UW-Madison 1994/95 The Guggenheim Fellowship 1993 Lily Fellowship for Teaching 1992/93 The Social Science Research Council- Advanced Area Study Fellowship 1982-88 University of Sydney Post-graduate Research Award
PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH 1994 Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (with translations into Japanese and Korean).
2008 “Nationalism and the Radical Intelligentsia in Thailand,” Third World Quarterly, 29:3, 575-91. 2008 “Toppling Democracy” Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38, 1, 11-37 2005 “Trying to Locate Southeast Asia from Its Navel: Where is Southeast Asian Studies in Thailand?” in Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space, ed. Henk Schulte Nordholt, Paul Kratoska and Remco Ruben, Athens: Ohio University Press, 113-32 2004 “Beyond Borders: an overview of Southeast Asian studies in Thailand” in Siksacakr, an English- French-Khmer journal for Cambodian Studies, Center for Khmer Studies, Paris and Phnom Penh, no. 6, 118-32. 2003 “Writing at the Interstices: Southeast Asian Historians and Post-National Histories in Southeast Asia”, leading article in New Terrains in Southeast Asian History, ed. Abu Talib Ahmad and Tan Liok Ee, Athens: Ohio University Press, 3-29. 2002 “Remembering/ Silencing the Traumatic Past: the Ambivalent Memories of the October 1976 Massacre in Bangkok" in Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos, ed. Charles F Keyes and Shigeharu Tanabe, London and New York: Routledge/Curzon, 243-83. 2001 “We Do Not Forget the 6th of October: the 1996 Commemoration of the October 1976 Massacre in Bangkok” in Imagining the Past and Remembering the Future, ed. Maria Serena Diokno, Manila: University of Philippines, Center for Integrative and Development Studies, pp.90-104. 2000 “The Quest for ‘Siwilai’: A geographical discourse of Civilizational Thinking in the Late 19th and early 20th Century Siam”, Journal of Asian Studies 59, 3 (Aug 2000): 528-549. 2000 "The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-spatial Differentiation of Siamese Subjects, 1885-1910," lead article in Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States, ed. Andrew Turton, London: Curzon Press, pp. 38-62. 1997 “The Future of Asian Studies” The Asian Studies Newsletter, June 1997, pp. 11-12. 1996 "Maps and the Formation of the Geo-Body of Siam," in Asian Forms of Nations, ed. Hans Antlov and Stein Tonnesson, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and London: Curzon Press, pp. 67-91. 1995 "The Changing Landscape of the Past: New Histories in Thailand Since 1973," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 26, 1 (1995), pp. 99-120.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN THAI (selected – titles are translations) 2008 “[Power and Rebellion]” postscript for the Thai translation of George Orwell, Nineteen- Eighty-Four, Bangkok: Sommut Publishing, 2008, pp. 461-499. 2008 “[The Next Agenda for the Studies of the Thai State]”, in [The State in Everyday Life], Bangkok: the Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, 2008, pp. 45-64. 2007 “[Failure to Go Beyond the Post-October 1973 Democracy]” in [The September 2006 Coup for Democracy Under the Constitutional Monarchy], ed. Thanapol Eawsakul, Bangkok: FDK Publishing, pp. 30-57. 2006 “[Truth in Historical Studies and Truth in Thai History],” in [What Truth is for the Humanities], ed. Suwanna Satha-anand, Bangkok: Thailand Research Fund, pp. … 2005 Book: [Going Beyond the Post-1973 Democracy], Bangkok: the 14 October Foundation, 84 pages. 2005 “[The Victory of the Liberal democracy with the Monarchy ‘Above’ the realm of Politics]” in Thammasat University and the Space of Politics in Thailand: 1932-2004, ed. Charnvit Kasetsiri, pp. 33-63. 2004 “[Ghosts at Tha Phrachan: space, place, stories and the politics spatial memories]”, the Bulletin of the Thammasat University Archive, 8, June 2004, pp. 3-13. 2003 “[Thammaracha of 16th c.: a villain who was wrongfully charged by historians]” in Phra Maha Thammaracha Kasatrathirat [King Maha Thammaracha the Great], ed. Sujit Wongdes, Bangkok, 2003, 146-183. 2002 “[Stories from the borders and the geographical logic of Thai national history]”, Silapawatthanatham [Arts and Culture] 23, 12 (Oct 2002): 70-83. 2001 “[The royal-nationalist historiography in Thailand: from the crypto-colonial period to the cults of Royal Fathers in the present]”, Silapawatthanatham [Arts and Culture] 23, 1 (Nov 2001): 56-65.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS (selected) 2008 - Keynote talk at Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, Graduate Students Conference, March 14-16 2007 - Focus on the Humanities, Distinguished Faculty Lectures, UW-Madison, Nov 28 - Foreign Correspondence Club of Thailand, Nov 20 - Guest Speaker for the occasion of the Launch of the Graduate Program in Asian Studies at York University, Toronto, January 17 2006 - Keynote speaker at the conference in honor of Professor Bass J Terwiel, Hamburg University, Germany, November 24-25. - Speaking at the US-Thailand conference 2006 by SAIS, John Hopkins University and the Thai Embassy, Washington D.C. - Lecture at Humboldt University, Germany (Nov 27), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (Nov 28), Harvard University (Oct24), Stanford University (Nov 8), New York University (Nov 14) 2005 - The October 14, 1973 Revolution Memorial Lecture, Bangkok, October 14 2004 - Keynote speaker at the conference on “Truth in the Humanities”, Thailand Research Fund and Chulalongkorn University, August 23. 2003 - Keynote speaker at Waseda University, Tokyo, on “Asian Identity in the Age of Globalization”, Dec 7. 2002 - Keynote speaker at the international conference on “Southern Thailand: Current Social Transformations”, June 13-15, organized by Harvard University and Prince Songkhla Nakharin University, Pattani, Thailand. - Keynote speaker at the symposium on “The Place of Memory in Southeast Asia” by Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Mar 29-30. 2001 - Keynote speaker at the Conference in Honor of Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Sept 7. - The David E. Jeremiah and Connie Jeremiah Lecture at University of Oregon, Oct 24. 2000 - Keynote speaker at the opening of the memorial for the October 1976 Incident, Thammasat University, Bangkok 1999 - Keynote speaker, the Seventh International Conference on Thai Studies, Amsterdam, July - Keynote speaker, Conference on Southeast Asian Historiography Since 1945, Penang, Malaysia,
Other invited lectures in the past included for the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Presidential Roundtable, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Siam Society in Thailand, University of Chicago, Cornell University, Harvard University, University of California-Berkeley, Stanford University, New York University, University of Michigan, Yale, Princeton, University of North Carolina, University of Amsterdam, University of Munster, Hamburg University, Humboldt university, SOAS – University of London, London School of Economics and Politics (LSE), Thammasat University, Chulalongkorn University, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Development Research Institute, the Foreign Correspondence Club of Thailand, Thailand Research Funds, and several other universities in Thailand.
OTHER SCHOLARLY EXPERIENCE - Referees for the Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal in Southeast Asian Studies, Critical Asian Studies, Comparative Studies in Societies and History, Intervention, Positions, Pacific Affairs, Space and Society, Law and Society, and for manuscripts from Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Duke University Press, East-West Center Publications, Princeton University Press, Routledge, University of California Press, Oxford University press, University of Hawaii Press, Yale University Press, Yale Southeast Asia Program, University of Washington Press, University of Wisconsin Press. - Reader for academic promotion and outside dissertation committee/ examiner for many institutions in the US and worldwide, including University of California-Berkeley, Harvard University, Cornell University, University of Chicago, University of Oregon, University of California – Santa Cruz, University of Hawaii, the Australian National University, Monash University, University of Melbourne, the University of Wollongong, the National University of Singapore, University of Malaya - Organizer of panels at the AAS annual meetings in 1993, 97, 99, 2000, 01; presenting papers or being the Chair and/or discussants in 1993, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2001, 03, 05, 08 - Organizer of a panel at the International Conference on Thai Studies in 1996, 2002, 2005, and six panels in 2008; presenting papers in 1987, 1993, 1996, 2002, 2005; Keynote speaker in 1999. Advisor and Program Committee for 2005 and 2008 - Lecturers at several Thai universities every time when returning to Thailand
OTHER EXPERIENCE AND SERVICES - Contributors to several newspapers and magazines in Thailand. Consultant and resource person for several international media (Voice of America, BBC, ABC News, Far Eastern Economic Review, TIMES, AP, Christian Science Monitor, Forbes, The Economist, and more) on issues relating to Thailand.