Former Ph.D. student Sinae Hyun recently published a new book titled Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand (University of Hawaii Press, 2023). Description The Border Patrol Police (BPP) of Thailand was formed as a United States CIA’s paramilitary intelligence force in the early 1950s. In the early 1960s, changes …
Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him), PhD Candidate in Southeast and South Asian History, has recently published an article in Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions titled “Dangerous Friendships in Eighteenth-Century Buddhist Laṅkā and Siam.” The article considers how the kingdoms of Kandy (in what is now Sri Lanka) and Ayutthaya (now Thailand) were briefly connected across …
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thongchai Winichakul whose recent book, Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok (U Hawaii Press, 2020) has won the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize from the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies. The EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize is awarded to the best academic book on Southeast …
Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him), PhD Candidate in Southeast and South Asian History and current Fulbright U.S. Student Program research grantee in Sri Lanka, recently gave an invited lecture to students, staff members, and early-career instructors in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Tyler’s lecture focused on the experiences, constraints, processes, …
Congratulations to graduate students Zada Ballew and Christopher Hulshof on receiving 2021 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards! Zada received the Early Excellence in Teaching Award, while Christopher received the Exceptional Service Award. The Early Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes outstanding and inspirational performance on the part of TAs with fewer than four semesters of teaching experience. The Exceptional Service Award recognizes TAs …
Congratulations to Professor Alfred McCoy on the publication of his new book, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change, out this month from Haymarket Books. From the publisher’s website: “In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death …
UW–Madison was included this year on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Students. Of the thirteen Fulbright recipients from UW–Madison, three are graduate students in our Department of History! Celia Crifasi has received a study/research award for Spain, Carly Lucas has received a study/research award for Tanzania, …
Tyler A. Lehrer, a graduate student in the Department of History at UW–Madison, has just published his first peer-reviewed article in Buddhist Studies Review. The article “Mobilizing Gendered Piety in Sri Lanka’s Contemporary BhikkunOrdination Dispute,” considers politicized representations of women’s piety in the context of controversial ordinations of Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka. Lehrer is …
Professor Alfred McCoy, the Harrington Professor of History at UW–Madison, has published an opinion piece on the foreign and domestic implications of drug prohibition policies, through the lens of history. The link to the piece can be found here: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176549/. Professor McCoy researches and teaches on U.S. foreign policy, colonial empires in Southeast Asia, and global drug …
Al McCoy’s essay, “Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster,” is featured on TomDispatch.com “As Washington’s leadership fades more quickly than anyone could have imagined and a new global order struggles to take shape, a generation of leaders has crowded onto the world stage with their own bold geopolitical visions for winning international …