Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Visiting Fellow, National Thai Studies Centre Email: Rosemary.Brissenden@anu.edu.au Phone: + 61 2 6125 3958 Fax: + 61 2 6125 8326 Room: e409 Baldessin Precinct Building

Mrs Rosemary Brissenden

Rosemary Brissenden, Visiting Fellow, National Thai Studies Centre (History, Culture and Human Ecology of a village in Thailand), cuisines and culinary cultures.

Rosemary Brissenden [BA (Hons), Melbourne] pursued ever-broadening interests in her teaching and research career at ANU. From politics and international relations she moved through aspects of Southeast Asian history and culture to the study of human ecology in rice growing and in western industrial societies. At the same time she maintained both a practical and scholarly interest in Southeast Asian cuisines and culinary cultures.

Her publications have reflected this variety: a study of Indian foreign policy under Nehru in a book on SEATO; joint editorship of an early book on politics in post-colonial Asia; a chapter on pre-colonial maritime societies in a book of studies in Indonesian history, and three editions of South East Asian Food - a pioneering work in its first edition.

Currently Rosemary is working on a book on Ban Ko Noi village in Sukhothai arising out of participant-observation during a recent year spent there.