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- Thongchai Winichakul, (University
of Sydney, 1988), a professor in the History Department, is a specialist
in the intellectual and cultural history of Thailand, with an emphasis
on knowledge and the construction of the Thai nationhood. His book,
Siam Mapped, which received the Harry J. Benda prize
by the Association for Asian Studies in 1995, is about the geography
of nationalism, the encounter etween the modern and indigenous knowledge
of geography and mapping that resulted in the geo-body of Siam. Thongchai
has received important grants and awards including the SSRC (1992/93),
the Guggenheim (1994/95), the Vilas Associates (1999-2001) and was
elected the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, class
of 2003. He currently is writing a book on the memories of the massacre
on October 6, 1976 in Bangkok, focusing on the various kinds of silence
after the traumatic past and the failure of Thai history to address
the issue. His works in progress also include a study on the history
of Thai history -- the demarcations between what
is and what is not considered historical knowledge in Thailand, and
the formulation of the master narrative of Thai history as a dominant
ideology. As a former student leader in the 70s in Thailand, Thongchai's
interests in issues in contemporary Thailand remain strong. Thongchai
served on the Board of the Association for Asian Studies (USA) in
1996, and was the Director of the Center in 1997-99.
For more information please visit Professor Winichakul's History Department homepage.
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- Courses:
- History 438: Buddhism
and Society in Southeast Asian History
- History 457: Southeast
Asia before 1800
Undergraduate Seminars:
- History 500: Seminar:
Nationhood and Nationalism
- History 500: Seminar:
Orientalism: The "Other" in our Knowledge
- History 600: Seminar:
Issues in Southeast Asian History Before 1800
Graduate Seminars:
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- History 703: History and Theory: History and Theory
- History 703: History and Theory: Geography in History
- History 755: Seminar:
Politics and Political Culture in Modern History of Thailand
- History 755: Seminar:
Remembering the Traumatic Past: Thailand in the 1970s
- Papers/Publications:
- - Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body
of a Nation (University of Hawaii Press, 1994)
- - "The Changing Landscape of the Past:
New Histories in Thailand Since 1973" Journal of Southeast
Asian Stuides, 25:1 (March 1995);
- - "The Others Within: Travel and Proto-Ethnography
in Siam 1880-1920," in Civility and Savagery: the Differentiation
of Peoples Within the Tai Speaking Polities, ed. Andrew Turton
(forthcoming);
- "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 (August 2000).
- - "Remembering the Traumatic Past: Ambivalent
Narratives of the October 1976 Massacre in Bangkok" in Cultural
Crisis and Social Memory: Politics of the Past in Thailand and Laos,
ed. Charles Keyes and Shigeharu Tanabe (forthcoming by Curzon Press
and University of Hawaii Press).
Other links of interest:
http://seasia.wisc.edu/People/Asia_Sentinel_-_Taking_on_Thailand_s_myths.pdf
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- Office Hours:
- On leave for the Fall 2003 semester.
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- How to contact Professor Winichakul:
- Email: twinicha@wisc.edu
- Phone: (608) 263-8931
- Address:
Department of History
5211 Humanities
455 N. Park St.
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Madison, WI 53706
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