Peter A. Jackson
Peter A. Jackson is an Associate Professor and Senior Fellow in Thai History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. He specialises in the cultural history of modern Thailand and his main research interests are the histories of Buddhism, gender, sexuality, and globalisation in Thailand. His books include Buddhism, Legitimation and Conflict: The Political Functions of Urban Thai Buddhism (Singapore, 1989); Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand (Bangkok, 1995); and Buddhadasa: Theravada Buddhism and Modernist Reform in Thailand (Chiang Mai, 2003). He is currently writing a history of Thailand’s same-sex and transgender cultures, conducting research on the impact of globalisation and capitalism on Thai religion in the 1990s, and exploring the history of Thai perceptions of the West since the reign of King Mongkut in the mid-19th century.