B.A. (Northern Illinois University);
PhD (Michigan, 2001)
Tel: (65) 6516 6053
Office: AS1 05 - 34
Maitrii Aung-Thwin is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian/Burmese History. He joined the Department of History at NUS in 2003 following a post-doctorate appointment with the Asia Research Institute (ARI) in 2002. He did his undergraduate degree at Northern Illinois University where he studied Classics, American, and Southeast Asian history. In 1994, he joined the PhD program in the Department of History at the University of Michigan where he received his PhD in 2001. His areas of interest and disciplinary leanings include ancient and modern Southeast Asian history, the history of Buddhist scholarship, socio-legal studies, the history of anthropology, and post-colonial studies. His book, Return of the Garuda King: Ethnology, Law and Rebellion in Colonial Burma, explores British colonialism's role in the historical construction of rebellion in Burma. He is currently co-authoring a history of Myanmar and editing a collection of essays which explore heritage and memory in Myanmar. Aung-Thwin teaches and supervises at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with a primary focus on Southeast Asian history and historiography. He is co-convener of ARI’s Burma-Thailand Study Group (which coordinates seminars for NUS/Visiting scholars) and he is currently Book Review Editor for the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
COURSES OFFERED IN 2009/2010:
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HY2246: Intro to World History (Sem 1, 2009)
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HY2250: Introduction to Southeast Asian History (Sem I, 2009) |
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HY4216: Literature and Culture in SEA History (Sem II, 2010)
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PUBLICATIONS:
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“Structuring Revolt: Communities of Interpretation in the Historiography of the Saya San Rebellion”, Vol. 39, (2), Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, June 2008. |
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“Introduction: Communities of Interpretation and the Construction of Modern Myanmar:” Vol. 39, (2), Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, June 2008. |
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“Water and Polity in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia: A Preliminary Historiography”, in P. Borschberg and Martin Krieger (eds), Water and State in Europe and in Asia, New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2008. |
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"Colonialism, Southeast Asia", Maryanne Cline Horowitz (ed) New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group. (2004)
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"Westernization, Southeast Asia", Maryanne Cline Horowitz (ed) New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group. (2004) |
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"Anti-Colonialism, Southeast Asia", Maryanne Cline Horowitz (ed) New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group. (2004) |
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"Genealogy of a Rebellion Narrative: Law, Ethnology and Culture in Colonial Burma", Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 34 (3), pp 393-419, October 2003. |
FORTHCOMING/WORK IN PROGRESS:
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Return of the Garuda King: Ethnology, Law and Rebellion in Colonial Burma (Under Contract, Ohio University Press, Forthcoming 2010) |
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(With Michael Aung-Thwin), Myanmar: Places, Peoples, & Pasts (Under Contract, Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press, Forthcoming 2010) |
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“Healing, Rebellion, and the Law: Ethnologies of Medicine in Colonial Burma 1928-1932”, in Monique Skidmore (ed) Medicine in Myanmar, NIAS Press, (Forthcoming 2009). |
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“Discourses of Emergency in Colonial and Post-Colonial Burma”, in Victor Ramraj (eds), Emergency Powers in Asia, Cambridge University Press, (Forthcoming 2009). |
CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ME
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"...I find topics in ritual studies...
Buddhism, law/trials, colonial identities,
memory, and ethnology equally a part of my
future research and teaching agenda ... During
my spare time I like to remain active in the
gym, the soccer pitch, and in the various
eateries that grace this culinary-friendly
city."
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