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Born and growing up in Bangkok, Thailand, I came to UW in 1991. I enjoy the opportunity to remain active in both the American and Thai academics.

Research Interests: Cultural and intellectual history of early modern and modern Southeast Asia (the nineteenth century to early twentieth century), especially the encounters between Southeast Asian societies and the West; history of Siam/Thailand, especially of various knowledge, ideas and thinkers, and the modern Thai cultural politics from the late nineteenth century to the present; nationalism; geography, mapping, dangerous history, memory and how societies deal with such troubling past.

Education:

PhD - University of Sydney
MA - University of Sydney
BA - Thammasat University (Thailand) 

Books:

	Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994). View Book Details

Selected Publications:

2003 - “Writing at the Interstices: Southeast Asian Historians and Post-National Histories in Southeast Asia”, leading article inNew Terrains in Southeast Asian History, ed. Abu Talib Ahmad and Tan Liok Ee, Athens: Ohio University Press, pp. 3-29.
2002 - “Remembering/ Silencing the Traumatic Past: the Ambivalent Memories of the October 1976 Massacre in Bangkok" inCultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos, ed. Charles F Keyes and Shigeharu Tanabe, London and New York: Routledge/ Curzon, pp. 243-283.
2000 - "The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-spatial Differentiation of Siamese Subjects, 1885-1910," lead article inCivility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States, ed. Andrew Turton, London: Curzon Press, pp. 38-62.
2000 - “The Quest for ‘Siwilai’: A geographical discourse of Civilizational Thinking in the Late 19th and early 20th Century Siam”,Journal of Asian Studies59, 3 (Aug 2000): 528-549.

SelectedAwards:

2004 - Grand Prize for the Asia Pacific Book Award from the Asian Affairs Research Council, Japan
2003 - Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, class of 2003
1994/95 - The John Simon Guggenheim Award
1995 - The Harry J. Benda Award, Association for Asian Studies, for the book Siam Mapped.

History Courses:

History 283 - Intermediate Honors Seminar - Topics: "Studies in History" 
History 438 - Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asian History -Syllabus 2008 (pdf)
History 457 - History of Southeat Asia to 1800 -Syllabus 2016 (pdf)
History 500 - Reading Seminar in History
History 600 - Orientalism: The Others in our Knowledge -Syllabus 2006 (pdf)
History 703 - Geography at Work in History -Syllabus 2008 (pdf)
History 753 - Seminar in Comparative World History
History 755 - State and Society in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia -Syllabus 2005 (pdf)

Thongchai Winichakul

Professor

608.263.8931 

twinicha@wisc.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf) 

Mailbox:
5021 Mosse Humanities

Office Hours:
Tuesdays 1:30-3:30