Maitrii Aung-Thwin

Associate Professor of Myanmar/Southeast Asian history, National University of Singapore

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Maitrii Aung-Thwin (PhD History, 2001) is Associate Professor of Myanmar/Southeast Asian history at the National University of Singapore and Convener of the Comparative Asian Studies PhD Program. His research is concerned with nation-building, heritage, identity-politics, public history and resistance in Myanmar. His publications include: A History of Myanmar since Ancient Times: Traditions and Transformations (co-authored with Michael A. Aung-Thwin, 2013), The Return of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma (2011) and A New History of Southeast Asia (co-authored with Merle Ricklefs et al, 2010). Dr. Aung-Thwin served on the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Board of Directors and chaired the AAS’s Southeast Asia Council.  Within the region, Aung-Thwin is a trustee of the Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program Foundation (Philippines), a board member of the Southeast Asian Studies in Asia Consortium (Japan) and was a technical advisor for the seven-year UNESCO (Bangkok) project, “Shared Histories of Southeast Asia”, a curriculum development project for secondary schools across the region.  He is currently Deputy Director of the Asia Research Institute (NUS), president-elect of the Burma Studies Foundation (USA), and editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.