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Reader, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories
Email: Craig.Reynolds@anu.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 6125 8239
Fax: + 61 2 6125 8326
Room: e440 Baldessin Precinct Building


Distinguished Scholars Program Convenor
Email: Colin.Jeffcott@anu.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 6125 3190
Fax: + 61 2 6125 8326
Room: e431 Baldessin Precinct Building
Dr Craig Reynolds
Dr Craig Reynolds

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Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Southeast Asian History from Cornell University
  • B.A. in English Literature from Amherst College

Research

In the context of the history of modern Thailand, particularly cultural, social and intellectual history: the discourse of globalisation in local settings; Thai nationalism and self-making; knowledge systems - their local histories and foreign encounters. Also, the relationship between colonialism and the development of the field of Southeast Asian history; 'power' as a critical term in Buddhist studies

Present Appointments

  • Reader, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University

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

Courses

  • Undergraduate teaching - The comparative history of mainland Southeast Asia (Burma / Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam); Thailand's modern history; Orientalism; religion and social movements in mainland history; history and theory; honours core course (Textual Strategies)

Supervision

Postgraduate supervision - Generally, in relation to research and teaching interests above. Projects currently underway (late 2003) at PhD and MPhil level include Sino-Thai businesswomen, cultural history of advertising in Thailand, use of anastylosis in the restoration of monuments in Thailand, history of citizenship and migration policy in Thailand, reform of the Sangha in Thailand today, comparative study of historical writing in Filipino and Indonesian textbooks, Catholicism and the dynastic state in nineteenth-century southern Vietnam

Publications

Books

  • Thai Radical Discourse: The Real Face of Thai Feudalism Today Ithaca , Cornell Southeast Asia Program. Reprint edition (1994)

Book Chapters

  • 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)
  • Thailand in Australia in Asia: Communities of Thought ed. Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, pp.100-125 (1996)
  • 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)
  • Thai Revolution in The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions Jack A. Goldstone, ed., Washington, D.C., Congressional Quarterly Inc, pp.479-480 (1998)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)

Journal Articles

  • 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)
  • A New Look at Old Southeast Asia in Journal of Asian Studies 54.2, pp.419-46 (1995)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Internationalising Social Science: A New Architecture in Dialogue Newsletter of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 18.1, pp.23-26 (1999)
  • Icons of Identity as Sites of Protest: Burma and Thailand Compared in PROSEA Research Paper no.30, Taipei, Academica Sinica (2000)
  • Cosmologies, Truth Regimes and the State in Southeast Asia in Modern Asian Studies (with Tony Day), 34.1, pp.1-55 (2000)
  • Globalisers vs. Communitarians: Public Intellectuals Debate Thailand's Futures in Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 22.3, pp.252-69 (November 2001)
  • Tai-land and its Others in South East Asia Research 11.1, pp.113-20 (2003)

Grants

  • 2003: Royal Thai Government Golden Jubilee Grant for Postgraduate Supervision: Modern Lao Historiography (History, Mahasarakham University), The Impact of Technology on Thai Literature (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Chulalongkorn University)
  • 1996-1997: The Australian Research Council Large Grant), The State in Southeast Asia

Memberships

  • since 1970: Association for Asian Studies
  • since founding in 1976: Asian Studies Association of Australia
  • since 1969: Siam Society; (Honorary Life Member since 1995)
  • 1993: Director, National Thai Studies Centre (ANU)
  • 1996-2000: Head, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories
  • 1999-2001: Director, Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora
  • 1994-97: Joint Committee on Southeast Asia, Social Science Research Council
  • 1998-2000: Chair, Social Science Research Council, Regional Advisory Panel / Southeast Asia
  • 2003-: Oz Assessor, Australian Research Council


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