Thun, Theara

Thun, Theara
Research Departments・Position
Cross-regional Studies
Affiliated Assistant Professor
Area
History
Research Interests / Keywords
Intellectual History, Manuscript Cultures, Politics of Ethnicity,
Southeast Asian History, Cambodia/Khmer Studies

Thun, Theara

Theara Thun is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University, Japan. Before joining CSEAS, he was a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands. He received a PhD in History at the National University of Singapore under a joint doctoral scholarship program between the National University of Singapore and the Harvard-Yenching Institute (Cambridge, MA, USA). His research interests include the relationship between local texts and figures and the construction of collective identity and religion from the pre-colonial to post-independence periods of Cambodia and Southeast Asia.