Thongchai Winichakul ธงชัย วินิจจะกูล | |
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![]() Winichakul in 2020 | |
Born | Bangkok, Thailand | October 1, 1957
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]