Dr Craig Reynolds
Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Adjunct Professor, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories
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Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Southeast Asian History from Cornell University
- B.A. in English Literature from Amherst College
Research
The history of modern Thailand, and Southeast Asia more generally, particularly cultural, social and intellectual history; Thai nationalism and self-making; knowledge - its various local histories and foreign encounters. Current research project, funded by ARC (see below, Grants), includes a monograph in preparation, Religion, Banditry, and a Soutern Thai Policeman, 1930s-1960s.
Present Appointments
- Adjunct Professor, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
- Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
Previous Appointments
- 1972 - 1990 Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Sydney
- 1991 - 1994 Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific and Asian History Research, School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University
- 1995 Reader in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University
- 2000 Visiting Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California-Berkeley
Supervision
Postgraduate supervision. PhD theses include sport and physical culture in post-World War II Laos (Simon Creak); the Siamese government's collection of information about its citizens in the late nineteenth century to 1932 (Tamthai Dilokvidhyarat); peasant unrest in late-colonial Malaya (Amrita Malhi) (co-supervisor with Robert Cribb).
Grants
ARC Discovery Grant (with Andrew Walker, RMAP, CAP), Handbooks and Environmental Knowledge in Thailand.
Memberships
Editorial Boards: Kyoto University, Review of Southeast Asian Studies (electronic resource), Southeast Asia Publications Series (Asian Studies Association of Australia), Faculty of Asian Studies Editorial Committee (Chair) for ANU E-Press.
Publications
Books
- Early Southeast Asia: Selected Essays, by O. W. Wolters. Ithaca, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, edited by Craig J. Reynolds (2008)
- Tycoons, Warlords, Feudalists, Intellectuals, and Common People. Bangkok, Textbook Foundation Project for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Thammasat University (2007) In Thai
- Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts. Seattle, University of Washington Press (2006)
- Thai Radical Discourse: The Real Face of Thai Feudalism Today Ithaca , Cornell Southeast Asia Program. Reprint edition (1994)
Book Chapters
- ‘'The Professional Lives of O.W. Wolters,'’ in edited volume above, O.W. Wolters, Early Southeast Asia: Selected Essays (2008)
- ‘'Thailand,'’ in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. New York, Oxford university Press (2008)
- ‘'Nation and State in Histories of Nation-Building with Special Reference to Thailand'’ in Wang Gungwu (ed.), Nation-Building: Five Southeast Asian Histories. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (2005)
- ‘'Power'’ in Donald Lopez Jr. (ed), Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism. Chicago, University of Chicago Press (2005)
- ‘'Tailandia en la era de la globalizacion'’ in Juan Ignacio Piovani and Sebastian (eds.), El sudeste asiatico: Una vision contemporanea, Beunos Aires, Editorial de la universidad nacional de tres de febrero (2004)
- ‘'Thailands Democratic Traditions'’ in Cavan Hogue (ed.), The Development of Thai Democracy since 1973: Proceedings of the Thai Update 2003. Canberra, National Thai Studies Centre, Australian National University (2004)
- ‘'Thai Identity in the Age of Globalisation'’ in National Identity Thailand and its Defenders: Thailand Today Craig J.Reynolds (ed.), Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, pp.308-338.[ISBN 974 7551 88 8] (2002)
- ‘'The Economic History of the Thai Village and Communitarianism'’ in With Pride [in Thai], Sirilak Sampatchalit and Siriphorn Yotkamolsat (eds.), Bangkok, Sangsan Press, pp.553-558.[ISBN974 90221 5 7] (2002)
- ‘'The Ethics of Academic Engagement with Burma'’ in Burma Myanmar: Strong Regime, Weak State? Morten B. Pedersen et al. (eds.), Adelaide, Crawford House Publishing Pty. Ltd., pp.123-37 (2000)
- ‘'On the Gendering of Nationalist and Postnationalist Selves in Twentieth-century Thailand'’ in Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand Peter A. Jackson and Nerida M. Cook, Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, pp.261-274 (1999)
- ‘'Thai Revolution'’ in The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions Jack A. Goldstone, ed., Washington, D.C., Congressional Quarterly Inc, pp.479-480 (1998)
- ‘'Globalisation and Cultural Nationalism in Modern Thailand'’ in Southeast Asian Identities: Culture and the Politics of Representation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand ed. Joel S. Kahn, Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 115-45 (1998)
- ‘'Thailand'’ in Australia in Asia: Communities of Thought ed. Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, pp.100-125 (1996)
- ‘'Tycoons and Warlords: Modern Thai Social Formations and Chinese Historical Romance'’ in Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese, A Volume in Honour of Jennifer Cushman ed. Anthony Reid. St. Leonards, NSW, Allen and Unwin, pp.115-47 (1996)
Journal Articles
- ‘'Tai-land and its Others'’ in South East Asia Research 11.1, pp.113-20 (2003)
- ‘'Globalisers vs. Communitarians: Public Intellectuals Debate Thailand's Futures'’ in Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 22.3, pp.252-69 (November 2001)
- ‘'Cosmologies, Truth Regimes and the State in Southeast Asia'’ in Modern Asian Studies (with Tony Day), 34.1, pp.1-55 (2000)
- ‘'Icons of Identity as Sites of Protest: Burma and Thailand Compared'’ in PROSEA Research Paper no.30, Taipei, Academica Sinica (2000)
- ‘'Internationalising Social Science: A New Architecture'’ in Dialogue Newsletter of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 18.1, pp.23-26 (1999)
- ‘'Public Intellectuals: A View from Southeast Asia; Located Knowledges'’ in Items 52.4, Social Science Research Council, pp.79-81 (December 1998)
- ‘'Southeast Asian Studies: Reorientations'’ in The Frank H. Golay Memorial Lectures 2 and 3 (with Ruth McVey), Ithaca , Cornell University , Southeast Asia Program (1998)
- ‘'The Study of Indochina and Burapha University'’ in Warasan manutsayasat lae sangkhomsat mahawithayalai burapha [Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Burapha University ] 6.6 (In Thai and English), pp.15-28 (January 1998)
- ‘'Elections in Thailand 1996: What is Missing?'’ in Current Affairs Bulletin (with Thaveeporn Vasavakul), 73.6, pp.4-9 (April 1997)
- ‘'Sino-Thai Business Culture: Strategies, Management and Warfare'’ in The Asia-Pacific Magazine nos. 6 and 7, pp.33-38 (1997)
- ‘'A New Look at Old Southeast Asia'’ in Journal of Asian Studies 54.2, pp.419-46 (1995)
- ‘'Predicaments of Modern Thai History'’ in South East Asia Research London, 2.1, pp.64-90 (March 1994)
- ‘'Australia and Thailand'’ in Australia-Asia Survey Melbourne, Macmillan Education Australia for the Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations, pp.265-77 (1994)