Nicholas Farrelly, BAS (Hons) (ANU), MPhil (Oxford)
Associate Lecturer, Department of Political and Social Change (joint appointment with the Faculty of Asian Studies)
Email: nicholas.farrelly@anu.edu.au
Biographical Statement
My recent research has focused on the borderlands where China, India and Southeast Asia meet. While studying this region I have continued to research, write and lecture on Thailand and other countries in the Asia-Pacific. In 2006 I co-founded New Mandala, which has grown to become the preeminent website for academic discussions of mainland Southeast Asia. Recently I convened a month-long ANU field course called "Southeast Asian Frontiers: Thailand and Burma" and I am currently finishing up a number of other major projects, including my doctorate at Oxford University.
Research Interests
South and Southeast Asian politics, ceasefires and commerce in northern Burma, civil war in northeast India, Burmese military affairs, Tai ethno-politics, Thai society, rural transformation, blogging.
Key Publications
- "'Ak47/M16 Rifle – Rs. 15,000 each': What price peace on the Indo-Burmese frontier?", Contemporary South Asia, Vol.18, No. 3, 2009.
- "Tai Community and Thai border subversions", Chapter in Andrew Walker (ed), Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and State in Southeast Asia, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2009, pp 64-83.
- "Northern Thailand's Specter of Eviction" (with Andrew Walker), Critical Asian Studies, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2008: pp 373-397.
Career Highlights
Rhodes Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford; Co-founder, New Mandala; Sir Peter Holmes Memorial Award 2007, Royal Society for Asian Affairs; Convenor, core courses in the ANU's Master of Asia-Pacific Studies program.
