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Thibodi Buakamsri

Portrait of 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. As he remarked in a 2022 interview, he focuses on the history of the คนเล็ก, khen lek, ​“little people”.

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. He is the author of ประวัติศาสตร์กัมพูชา Prawattisat Kampucha [History of Cambodia] Bangkok, Muang Boran Publishing, coll. ชุด « อาเซียน ในมิติประวัติศาสตร์» [« Asean » in historical perspective], [2555] 2012. [first published in 2004]. 

One of Thibodi Buakamsri’s sisters, Karuna Buakamsri, is a famous reporter and environmentalist in Thailand. 

Articles

  • ประวัติศาสตร์กัมพูชา Prawattisat Kampucha [History of Cambodia] Bangkok, Muang Boran Publishing, coll. ชุด « อาเซียน ในมิติประวัติศาสตร์» [« Asean » in historical perspective], [2555] 2012 [first published in 2004]. 
  • “Kanmueang Khong Khwam Song Cham: Thithang Khong Somdet Phra Narai Rama Ong Eng (1769 – 1796) Nai Prawattisat Kamphucha [A Politics of Remembrance: A Position of S.M. Ang Eng (1769 – 1796) in Cambodian History],” Journal of Mekong Studies 1, 2, May – August 2005, pp. 123 – 150. 
  • “Khwam pen ma khong bot ​‘Nokor Reach’ phleng chat Khamen: kan suksa buang ton [The History of the Khmer National Anthem ​‘Nokor Reach’: A Preliminary Study],” Journal of Mekong Studies 2, 1, January – April 2006, pp. 63 – 87. 
  • “Chot roem ruang prawattisat Kampucha [​‘A Beginning of the History of Cambodia’],” Journal of Mekong Studies 3, 2, May – August 2007, pp. 1 – 34. 
  • “Lawaek lae Phya Laweak: mueang luang, lueang tha, kan ka, lae songkram [Longvek and King of Longvek: a capital city and a port city, trade and war],” Silapawatthanatham 31, 3, January 2010, pp. 70 – 89. 
  • “Prawattisat sokkaprok [A Filthy history],” Journal of Politics and Governance 2, 2, March– August 2012, pp. 100 – 125. 
  • “‘Prathet’ Kamphucha khong Phra Ong Macha Votha and Yukanthor [‘The Country’ of Cambodia of Princes Votha and Yukanthor],” Journal of Liberal Arts, Ubon Ratchathani University 10, 1 January – June 2014, pp. 147 – 174.