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.
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).