I have been teaching at NUS since 1998, following six years of work in Vietnam and Laos. Ever since I was a teenager my life has been centered around Southeast Asia, beginning with Vietnamese refugees resettled in the US and continuing with an academic career in linguistics and history.
General Area: Mainland Southeast Asian History Specific Modules: --Asia and the Modern World (China, Southeast Asia components) --Thailand survey --Vietnam survey --Colonial Indochina --Buddhism in Southeast Asian history --Early Southeast Asian history
My main research project is currently a history of the Thai monarchy in the 20th century. I am also working on an article about Vietnam in the 10th century and have completed pieces on the historiography of Champa and the Nam tien process in Vietnamese history.
