Born and growing up in Bangkok, Thailand, I came to UW in 1991. He enjoy the opportunity to remain active in both the American and Thai academics. Research Interests: Cultural and intellectual history of early modern and modern Southeast Asia (the nineteenth century to early twentieth century), especially the encounters between Southeast Asian societies and the West; history of Siam/Thailand, especially of various knowledge, ideas and thinkers, and the modern Thai cultural politics from the late nineteenth century to the present; nationalism; geography, mapping, dangerous history, memory and how societies deal with such troubling past. Selected Publications: 1994 Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 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, pp. 3-29.
