Thongchai Winichakul ธงชัย วินิจจะกูล | |
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 Winichakul in 2020 | |
| Born | October 1, 1957 Bangkok, Thailand |
| Nationality | Thai |
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| Discipline | Historian |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Notable works | Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation (1994) Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok (2020) |
Thongchai Winichakul (Thai: ธงชัย วินิจจะกูล; RTGS: Thongchai Winitchakun, pronounced [tʰōŋ.tɕʰāj wí.nít.tɕà.kūːn]; born 1957[1]), is a Thai historian and researcher of Southeast Asian studies. He is professor emeritus of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a chief senior researcher at the Japanese Institute of Developing Economies. He was the president for the Association for Asian Studies in 2013.[2] He has had a major impact on the concept of Thai nationalism.[3]
- ^ Charnvit Kasetsiri (2019). "Thai historiography". In Pavin Chachavalpongpun (ed.). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand. Routledge.
- ^ "AAS Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 2014-06-22. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ Patrick Jory (March 2003). "Problems in Contemporary Thai Nationalist Historiography". Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (3). Archived from the original on 2008-02-23.