State enterprises and economic development in Thailand
Taxation and regulation of gambling, alcohol, drugs and tobacco in Thailand
Development and propagation of Thai historiography
Impact of Western imperialism in Southeast Asia
Education
PhD in History, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK, 2007
MA South East Asia Area Studies (Distinction), SOAS, University of London, UK, 2001
BA (Hons) Modern History and Politics, University of Reading, Reading, UK, 1996
Publications List
‘Semi-Colonialism Distilled: The Société française des distilleries de l’Indochine and the Siamese Government in the Early Twentieth Century’, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Nov. 2015), pp. 641-674
‘Troublesome Spirits: Alcohol, Excise and Extraterritoriality in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Siam’, South East Asia Research, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec. 2013), pp. 575-599
Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945, London and New York: Routledge, 2013 (paperback 2015)
‘The Rangoon Jail Riot of 1930 and the Prison Administration of British Burma’, South East Asia Research, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Mar. 2002), pp. 5-29
