Faculty Details

Michael Aung-Thwin

Professor of Asian Studies
Moore 413

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Educational Background

B.A., Doane College, 1969
M.A., University of Illinois, 1971
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1976 

Research / Teaching / Specializations

History of Burma, myth and historiography of early Burma, the classical states of Southeast Asia

Distinctions

Paradigms, Primary Sources and Prejudices: selected for Choices List of Outstanding Academic Books of 1998
Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
John D. Rockefeller III Fellow
Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies Fellow

Courses Taught

ASAN 310: Asian Humanities
ASAN 486: Contemporary Vietnam
ASAN 491S: Making of Modern Burma
ASAN 491S: Burmese History and Culture
ASAN 600: Seminar on South and Southeast Asia
ASAN 620: Problems and Issues of Contermporary Asia: Asia Through Fiction

Recent Publications

Myanma Pran: When Context Encounters Notion, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 39, no. 2 (June 2008), pp. 193-217

Review of Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma. Edited by Mikael Gravers. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2007) in Pacific Affairs, vol. 80, no. 4 (Fall 2007)

The Mists of Ramanna: The Legend that Was Lower Burma (Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2005).

Paradigms, Primary Sources, and Prejudices

Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Burma. Ohio University Press and ISES, Singapore, (selected for Choices List of Outstanding Academic Books of 1998)

Cities of Early Burma in Myanmar: Spirit of the East. Co and Bear Productions, England, 1997

Hmnannan Mahayazawindawgyi In Making History: A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, Garland Publishing, 1997

The Myth of the 'Three Shan Brothers' and the Ava Period in Burmese History, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 55, no. 4, November 1996. Pp. 881-901

Pagan: The Origins of Modern Burma. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1985