Nidhi Eoseewong
Nidhi Eoseewong is a prominent Thai historian, writer, and political commentator.Biography
Nidhi Eoseewong was born on 8 May 1940, to an ethnic Chinese family in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He studied at Assumption College Sriracha in Chonburi Province, and went on to earn bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Upon graduation, he accepted a position teaching history at Chiang Mai University, where he would go on to spend the majority of his professional career. He took temporary leave to continue his studies, completing a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1976. He retired in 2000, but has remained active in the academic community. He is an important contributor to the website Midnight University, and continues to publish and make appearances regularly.Awards
Honors include the Outstanding Research Award from the National Research Council of Thailand, the Siburapha Award, and the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize.Works
- Fiction as History: A Study of Pre-war Indonesian Novels and Novelists 1920–1942
- ปากไก่และใบเรือ : รวมความเรียงว่าด้วยวรรณกรรม และประวัติศาสตร์ต้นรัตนโกสินทร์ Pak kai lae bai rua: wa duai kan suksa prawatisat – wannakam ratanakosin
- Kanmueang Thai Samai Phra Narai
- การเมืองไทยสมัยพระเจ้ากรุงธนบุรี Kanmueang Thai Samai Phrachao Krung Thonburi
- Krung Taek, Phra Chao Tak lae Prawatisat Thai: Wa Duai Prawatisat lae Prawatisatniphon .
- Morng sathannakarn phaktai phan wæn 'kabot chaona, Sinlapa Watthanatham 25, no.8 : 110–124; translated by the Regional Studies Program, Walailak University as
