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Theara Thun

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Theara Thun is a research fellow under the Research Grants Council Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong. Before moving to Hong Kong, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden and a research assistant professor at Kyoto University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). He obtained his PhD in history from the National University of Singapore (NUS) under the Joint Scholarship Program between NUS and the Harvard-Yenching Institute (Massachusetts, USA). His PhD dissertation was awarded the Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Social Sciences and Humanities, submitted at NUS in 2019. Dr Thun’s research interests include intellectual history, ethnic studies, and post-war education. He has published eight peer-reviewed journal articles, and the most recent ones have appeared in Critical Asian Studies, Studies in Higher Education, Asian Studies Review, TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. His forthcoming book titled "Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1850s-1970s" will be published by the University of Hawaii Press in the summer of 2024. He can be reached at thearathun2@gmail.com.

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