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Virginia McKeen DI CROCCO Prehistoric , and several other Honorary Member of the Siam Society, books on Southeast Asian prehistory. has often conducted tours to study the monuments in Pagan and their murals. Reinhard HOHLER Recently she has completed for the Thai Is a PhD candidate in ethnology, Research Foundation a comprehensive geography, and political science at study of ‘The Footprints of the Five Heidelburg University, Germany. His Buddhas of this Bhaddakappa in a thesis topic deals with religion and Sinhalese-Siamese Context’, in which syncretism of the Lisu in northern she includes many of the Buddhapadas Thailand. In 1987 he settled in Chiang in the Pagan murals. Mai as a media travel consultant for the Greater Mekong Sub-Region. He is also George DUTTON working on Adolf Bastian’s travels in An assistant professor in the University mainland Southeast Asia, 1861–1864. of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Asian Languages and Yoneo ISHII Cultures, he specializes in eighteenth Born in in 1929. LL.D. Kyoto century Vietnamese history and particu- University and Emeritus Professor of larly the Tay Son uprising. His publica- Kyoto University. He has held posts in tions include a study of verse in this the Japanese Foreign Service and has period and a study of the early Nguyen been Director of the Center for South- state. east Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Professor of Sophia University, and Charles HIGHAM President of Kanda University of Inter- Is James Cook Fellow in the University national Studies, from which he retired of Otago, New Zealand, and a visiting in 2004. scholar of St Catherine’s College, Cam- bridge. He has been undertaking Helen JAMES archaeological research in Thailand Is a visiting fellow with the Research since 1969, co-directing with Thai School of Pacific and Asian Studies and colleagues excavations at several key the Asia-Pacific School of Economics sites, including Khok Phanom Di, Noen and Government, Australian National U-Loke, and Ban Non Wat. He is University. She has been a visiting co-author with Rachanie Thosarat of fellow with the Centre of International

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Studies, Cambridge University and in the Religious Studies Department of Clare Hall, where she is a life member. the University of California at Riverside. She has also worked with the Swedish His research topics include Lao, Thai, International Peace Research Institute, Pali, and Sanskrit literature, and South- Stockholm, and the East-West Center, east Asian Buddhism. Hawaii. She obtained her Ph.D.and M.A. at the University of Pittsburgh, and has MONTIRA Rato spent 14 years in Thailand teaching at Obtained her PhD in Modern - Chulalongkorn and Thammasat Univer- ese Literature from the School of sities. Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2003. She now teaches Liam C. KELLEY Vietnamese language and literature in Is assistant professor in the History the Department of Eastern Languages, Department at the University of Hawaii Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn Univer- at Manoa, specializing in Vietnam. He sity, . Her dissertation and has written on the emergence of nation- subsequent research has focused on alist thought in the late nineteenth post-1975 Vietnamese literature. century Vietnam, on a Chinese commu- nity in southern Vietnam in the seven- Yevgeny D. OSTROVENKO teenth and eighteenth century, and has a Has a Ph.D. in history and is a career book in press about Sino-Vietnamese diplomat, having joined the Ministry of intellectual and cultural relations in the Foreign Affairs of what is now the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Russian Federation in 1963. He has served in Iran, been ambassador to Leedom LEFFERTS Ghana, Afghanistan, and Romania, and Is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology since 2001 has been ambassador extra- from Drew University, Madison, New ordinary and plenipotentiary of the Jersey. He has been conducting ethno- Russian Federation in Thailand. graphic fieldwork in Northeast Thailand, and the rest of mainland Southeast PIYADA Chonlaworn Asia, since 1970. He is now engaged in Born Bangkok 1975, completed her a restudy of the community in which he Ph.D. on the relationship between Siam conducted his original research and and East Asian countries in the fifteenth which he has visited many times over to seventeenth centuries in the Depart- the past thirty years. ment of Oriental History, Hiroshima University, Japan in March 2004. She is Justin McDANIEL currently working as a researcher at the Received his PhD from Harvard Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University’s Dept of Sanskrit and Indian University. Studies in 2003. At present he teaches

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Tarmo RAJASAARI ber of the Siam Society. Is a Finnish freelance writer and pho- tographer. He is the author of Vapour David SMYTH Trails - Tales from Rural Thailand Is senior lecturer in Thai at the School (2003), which he wrote during his years of Oriental and African Studies, Univer- in Thailand’s North-East. Several of his sity of London. His published works in- magazine and newspaper articles about clude Teach Yourself Thai (revised rural Thai life and culture have also ap- 2003), Thai: an essential grammar peared in various publications. He now (2003), and Colloquial Cambodian lives in Wellington, New Zealand with (1995) He has also translated a number his Thai wife. of Thai novels and short stories into English, including Siburapha’s Behind Dawn ROONEY the Painting (1990), K. Surangkhanang’s An art historian specializing in south- The Prostitute (1994) and Chart east Asia, Dawn Rooney is a Fellow of Korpjitti’s No Way Out (2003). the Royal Geographical and Royal Asiatic Societies in London and an SUMET Jumsai na Ayudhya advisor to the Society for Asian Art at A Cambridge trained architect, his works the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. have appeared in numerous international Dr Rooney, who has lived in Thailand publications and exhibitions, including for the past three decades, is the author the Venice Biennale. He is a National of eight books on the culture of the Thai Artist, an honorary Fellow of the region, including a definitive guide to American Institute of Architects, Profes- Angkor. sorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, a member of the French Michael SMITHIES Académie d’Architecture, and Fellow Born London, 1932, and educated at Commoner of St John’s College, Cam- Oxford, Berkeley, and Paris. After teach- bridge. ing in France, California, and Gibraltar, he joined the British Council, serving in TEJ Bunnag Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia. He Studied at King’s College Cambridge has also worked in universities in Hong and St Anthony’s College Oxford Kong, Papua New Guinea, and (D.Phil.). He joined the Ministry of Singapore. He retired from the United Foreign Affairs in 1969 and from 1986 Nations in Bangkok in 1992 and has to 2001 held posts as ambassador in since written about Siamese history. A China, United Nations in Geneva, former Hon. Editor of JSS, he is a France, and the United States. His last Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, a post with the ministry was that of per- Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes manent secretary for Foreign Affairs. In Académiques, and an Honorary Mem- March 2004 he assumed the position of

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advisor, Office of His Majesty’s princi- Asia Society as manager of the tour pal private secretary. programme, then as founding director of the Asia Society in Houston. Retiring in Patricia YOUNG 1987, she spent most of each year in An art historian, during the time her Bangkok, active with the Siam Society husband Kenneth Young was United as vice-president, and then programme States ambassador to Bangkok, chairman, travelling widely, and focus- 1961–63, she concentrated on Thai and ing in research on the lacquer pavilion Khmer art. Widowed, she worked for the at Suan Pakkard.

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