Fukuoka Prize 2023
Grand PrizeThongchai WINICHAKUL
ThailandHistorianEmeritus Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Born October 1, 1957（Aged 65）
Biography
1957
1981
1984
1988
1988-91
1991
1991-95
1994-95
1994-97
1994-2010
1995-2001
1997-2000
2001-16
20032003-16
2008-10
2009-16
2009-212010-12
2012-162015
2015
20162017-19
20192022-

Born in Bangkok, Thailand
B.A. (History) Thammasat University, Thailand
M.A. (History) University of Sydney, Australia
Ph.D. (History) University of Sydney, Australia
Lecturer at Thammasat University, Thailand
Founder of Thammasat University Archives
Assistant Professor, History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAThe John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
Members of Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
Co-organizer, the Council on Thai Studies (COTS), USA
Associate Professor, History Department, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Jury of the Harry J Benda Prize, Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
Professor, History Department, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Co-editor of the Southeast Asia Series for University of Wisconsin Press
Director of graduate studies of the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Editorial Board of the journals South East Asia Research
Editorial Board and Consulting Editor of the journals Modern Asian Studies
Senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Executive Board, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) （President in 13&14）
Visiting Research Scholar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Visiting Fellow, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore
Emeritus Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Senior Researcher at Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO), Japan
Research Fellow Emeritus at Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO), Japan
Visiting Professor at the Pridi Banomyong International College (PBIC), Thammasat University,ThailandMajor Awards
19952004
2022

The Harry J. Benda Award, AAS for the book (Siam Mapped)
Grand Prize for the Asia Pacific Book Award, the Asian Affairs Research Council, Japan, for theJapanese edition of Siam Mapped
The 2022 EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize from the European Association for Southeast Asian

2023

Studies (Moments of Silence）
George McT. Kahin Prize (Southeast Asia) (Moments of Silence）

Major Publications
・Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1994.[Japanese version,2003.]
・Democracy with the Monarchy Above Politics, Same Sky Books, 2013 [Thai]
・6 October: Unforgettable but Unable to Remember, Same Sky Books, 2015. [Thai]
・The Face of Royal-nationalism in Thai Historiography, Same Sky Books, Thailand, 2016. [Thai]
・Thais/ Others, Nonthaburi, Same Sky Books, 2017. [Thai]
・Breaking the Conventional Thai History, Same Sky Books, Thailand, 2019. [Thai]
・The Great Transformation of Siam: the intellectual foundations of modern Siam, Same Sky Books, Thailand, 2019. [Thai]
・The Prerogative State and the Royal Rule of Law: a history of the Rule by Law in Thailand, for the 17th Puey Ungphakorn
Memorial Lecture, Thammasat University, 2020. [Thai]
・The Royal Nation-State, Same Sky Books, Thailand, 2020.[Thai]・Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok, University of Hawaii Press, 2020.
・Jiyu No Genkai Sekai No Chisei 21 Nin Ga to Kokka to Minshu Shugi, (The Limits of Freedom: 21 World Intellectuals
Question the State and Democracy )Chuo Koron Shinsha, 2021. [Japanese].