FASS Staff Profile

PROFESSOR MAURIZIO PELEGGI
PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT of HISTORY

Appointment:
PROFESSOR
Office:
AS1#05-24
Email:
hismp@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
6874 3356
Fax:
6774 2528
Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/hismp/
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Brief Introduction

I was born in Rome, where I attended university graduating (summa cum laude) with a major in Chinese history. Between 1992 and 1997 I pursued post-graduate studies at the Australian National University, obtaining an MA (Asian Studies, 1994) and a Ph.D.(Southeast Asian History, 1998). I've been teaching in the Department of History at NUS since July 1998.

Teaching Areas

 

  • HY3226: Memory, Heritage and History
  • HY 4xxx: Material culture in history
  • HY 5xxx:Graduate seminarin cultural history 

Current Research

Devotional Conservation: Caring for Cultural Artifacts in the Premodern World 


Research Interests

  • Cultural history of Thailand
  • Heritage conservation and museology
  • Historical representations
  • History of Images

Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

  • Thailand (London: Reaktion Books, forthcoming in 2006).
  • Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2002.
  • The Politics of Ruins and the Business of Nostalgia. Bangkok: White Lotus, 2002.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • "Royal antiquarianism, European orientalism, and the production of archaeological knowledge in modern Siam". In Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia, ed. Srilata Ravi, Goh Ben Lang, and Mario Rutten (Leiden: KITVL and Singapore: ISEAS, 2004).
  • "King Chulalongkorn in Thai collective memory" In Rama V, SEA Asia and India (Bangkok: Humanities and Textbook Foundation, 2004).

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • "Purveyors of modernity? European artists and architects in turn-of-the-century Siam." Asia Europe Journal 1:1 (2003): 91-102.
  • "Shifting Alterity: The Mongol in the Visual and Literary Culture of the Late Middle Ages." Medieval History Journal 4:1 (2001): 15-33.
  • "National Heritage and Global Tourism in Thailand", Annals of Tourism Research 23:2 (1996).

Other Information


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