Michael W. Charney
Michael W. Charney | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
| Known for | Editor-in-Chief of the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Thesis | Where Jambudipa and Islamdom Converged: Religious Change and the Emergence of Buddhist Communalism in Early Modern Arakan, 15th-19th Centuries (1999) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | SOAS University of London |
Michael W. Charney (born 27 December 1967) is a military historian of Asia, a Myanmar specialist, and a Professor of Asian and Military History at SOAS University of London, where he teaches international security, strategic studies, and Asian military history. His main research interests include the history of military logistics, armies and warfare in modern and contemporary Asia, the historical culture of war in Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, and West Africa, and the emergence of religious and national cultures in Myanmar and the greater Bay of Bengal.[1]
Academic career
His has M.A. degrees in Asian Studies at the University of Michigan and Asian History at Ohio University.[2] After receiving his PhD in History at the University of Michigan in 1999, Charney joined the Centre for Advanced Studies at the National University of Singapore (1999-2001) as a postdoctoral research fellow for two years working on migration studies and religion studies.
Since 2001, he began teaching at SOAS. From 2003 to 2010, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research.[2]In 2019, after eighteen years in the Department of History at SOAS, he moved to the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the same university.[1]
Works
Monographs
- Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia: Burma 1941-1942 (Bloomsbury, 2019)
- A History of Modern Burma (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
- Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752-1885 (The University of Michigan Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 2006)
- Southeast Asian Warfare 1300-1900 (Brill, 2004)
Edited books
- History of Warfare (Routledge, 2022)
- Warring Societies of Pre-colonial Southeast Asia: Local Cultures of Conflict Within a Regional Context (NIAS, 2017)
- The Encyclopedia of Empire (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
- Warfare in Early Modern South East Asia: Special Issue of South East Asia Research (Taylor & Francis, 2004)
- Asian Migrants and Education: The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and Among Migrant Groups (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003)
- Approaching Transnationalism: Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts and Imaginings of Home (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003)
- Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora (Singapore University Press, 2003)
External links
- Michael W. Charney publications indexed by Google Scholar
References
- ^ a b "Professor Michael W. Charney". SOAS. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
- ^ a b "Michael W. Charney". Open Library. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
