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Thongchai Winichakul was born on 1957 in Bangkok, Thailand, is a Thai historian. Discover Thongchai Winichakul's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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1957

Thongchai Winichakul (ธงชัย วินิจจะกูล;, ; born 1957 ), is a Thai historian and researcher of Southeast Asian studies.

He is professor emeritus of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a chief senior researcher at the Japanese Institute of Developing Economies.

1973

Student and labor organizing had blossomed during and after the popular uprising of 14 October 1973.

But following the return of disempowered military dictator Thanom Kittikachorn and the resignation of Prime Minister Seni Pramoj, Thongchai and other student leaders organized a fresh wave of protests centered at Thammasat University.

1976

These culminated in a large rally that grew through the night of 5 October 1976.

The next morning, 6 October, the Thai military and right-wing paramilitaries surrounded the Thammasat campus and attacked the students in the Thammasat University massacre.

At least 46 people were killed, some even being raped, hung, or burned to death.

Many students escaped.

Thousands of students were arrested, though 19 of the demonstration's "ringleaders" were eventually imprisoned, including Thongchai.

Various organizations, including Amnesty International, advocated for his release as a prisoner of conscience.

1978

He and his co-defendants were released by a royal amnesty on 16 September 1978, and allowed to return to finish education at Thammasat on the condition that they were not to be involved in further political activities.

He later went to Sydney, Australia, for his graduate education.

1981

Thongchai completed his Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honors from Thammasat University in 1981.

1984

He received his master's degree with honors from University of Sydney in 1984.

1988

In 1988, he was conferred his doctoral degree from the same university.

1991

Subsequently, he returned to Bangkok to lecture at Thammasat University until 1991.

He was then appointed assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Since 1991, he has been a member of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), chairing its Southeast Asia Council and serving on its executive board in 1996–1997.

1994

His best-known academic work is his book Siam Mapped, published in 1994, which critiqued existing theories of Thai historiography.

In 1994, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

1995

He remained in Madison, being promoted to associate professor in 1995, and full professor in 2001.

He was assigned to both the Department of History and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

1997

Among other positions, he served as director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies from 1997 to 1999, and director of graduate studies of the Department of History from 2008.

2003

Thongchai was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

2010

He was a principal research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore from 2010 to 2012.

2012

In 2012, he was vice president of the AAS, and in 2013, president.

2013

He was the president for the Association for Asian Studies in 2013.

He has had a major impact on the concept of Thai nationalism.

Thongchai is of Sino-Thai descent, was born and grew up in Bangkok.

He was a student organizer and political activist while still in high school.

He became even more involved in pro-democracy movements while in his first two years as an undergraduate at Thammasat University in Bangkok.

2016

He retired as professor emeritus in 2016.

In its Japanese translation, the book won the Grand Prize of the 16th Asian Pacific Awards from the Asian Affairs Research Council.

According to the Sojourn journal, it is one of the "most influential books of Southeast Asian Studies".

2017

From 2017 to 2019, he was a chief senior researcher at the Inter-disciplinary Studies Center of the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) in Chiba, Japan.

2020

Since 2020, he has been a visiting professor at the Pridi Banomyong International College of Thammasat University.

In 2020, Thongchai's book Moments of Silence was released.

With the book, which he described as an intensely personal project, he aimed to break the perceived silence surrounding the October 6 Massacre of students in Bangkok, including his personal experiences of it.