• Political development in post-1932 Thai politics
• The role of early Thai novels in defining gender, cultural identity and nationalism
• Material culture especially Thai ceramics
• The translation into English of early Thai novels and Thai American literature

• Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications; co-published in Thailand by Silkworm Press, 2007). This is a revised edition.
• Kanmuang Rabob Phokhun Uppatham Baeb Phadetkan, (Bangkok: Thai Textbook Foundation for the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2005), edited by Thamrongsak Petchlertanan. It book was chosen as one of three texts published to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the 1932 Revolution that overthrew Thai absolute monarchy. The first edition was published in 1983.
• “Towards a more inclusive national narrative: Thai history and the Chinese, Isan and the nation state” in Luem khotngao Kaw Phao Phaenadin, Kanjanee Laongsi and Thanet Apornsuwan, eds., (Bangkok: Matichon Press, 2001) pp. 64-110.
• Post-script:: “Rizal, Bonifacio, Aguinaldo: Khrai Khu Wirachon Khong Filipin”in Suchart Sawatsi, ed.,Wirachon Asia,(Bangkok:5 Area Studies Project, 2002), pp 149-175.
• “Move over Madonna: Luang Wichit Wathakan’s Huang Rak Haew Luk,” in James Siegel and Audrey Kahin, ed., Southeast Asia Across Three Generations (Ithaca: SEAP publications, 2003).
• “Prospects for Southeast Asian Studies,” Asia Pacific Forum, 28 (June 2005), pp. 287-306.
• “Khwam Mai Phayabat Khong Khru Liam lae Khwam Than Samai Khong Thai Thi Pen Panha”,Rathasatsan Journal,Volume 28, no. 2, April 2007.
• “Khru Liam’sNang Neramid:Siamese Fantasy, Rider Haggard’sShe,and the Divine Egyptian Nymph,”Southeast Asia Research Journal,Volume 15, no. 1, 2007.
• “Thai Kaem Farang: Nang Neramid Nawaniyay Lem Thi Song Khong Thai”Rathasatsan Journal,Volume 28, no.3, October/November 2007.
• “Khru Liam’s Khwam Mai Phayabat(1915) and the Problematics of Thai Modernity”, in Rachel Harrison and Peter Jackson,Siam: The Ambiguous Allure of the West, forthcoming.
• “Distinction with a Difference: the Despotic Paternalism of Sarit Thanarat and the Demagogic Authoritarianism of Thaksin Shinnawat,” Crossroads, forthcoming.
• "Making New Space in the Thai Literary Canon," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, (February 2009) forthcoming.

• Southeast Asia
• Contemporary Thailand
  

Introduction to Southeast Asia

Graduate seminar on Contemporary Thailand

Graduate seminar on the early Thai novels

Graduate field seminar: Southeast Asian Studies

• Affiliated with Southeast Asia Program
• Trustee, Center for Khmer Studies
• Director, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

• B.A., Foreign Service, University of the Philippines, 1965
  
• M.A. Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College, Los Angeles, 1968
• M.A., Governement, Cornell University, 1971
• Ph.D., Southeast Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1974

Winner for the Ohira Book Prize (Japan) 1985