Thibodi Buakamsri

Thibodi Buakamsri ธิบดี บัวคำศรี is a lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Arts, Department of History. He has been studying the modern history of Cambodia, and the somewhat tense relations between Thailand and Cambodia when dealing with cultural heritage, cultural appropriation and the role of politics in cultural heritage management.

His Ph.D. dissertation was Travelers, Dreamers, Adventurers and Agitators: Common Worlds and Uncommon Lives Across Nineteenth-Century Cambodia (South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., 2018), and his M.A. thesis ​‘Ekkasan Mahaburus Khamen’: kan suksa ngan khian prawattisat samai mai khong Kampucha [Ekasar Mahauras Khmaer: A Study of a Modern Cambodian Historical Writing] (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, 2005).

He regularly contributes to the Journal of Mekong Societies, an English-Thai print and online publication.

Read also ​‘A Beginning of the History of Cambodia’, Mekong Journal, 2007 (in Thai language).