Michael W. Charney

Although the core of Michael Charney's research and teaching has been on societies in South East Asia, his training, teaching, and research interests are much broader and this is reflected in part in the focus in his work on issues of movement, contact, and friction in culture, technology, and religion in both the premodern and modern periods between cultures and in frontier zones as varied as Brahmanic and Buddhist interaction on the Chindwin River in Upper Burma, Islamic and Buddhist communalism in Arakan and Southeastern Bengal, Portuguese Catholic contact with Buddhist monks in lands around the Bay of Martaban, the meeting of Iberian and Malay cultures of war at Melaka in 1511, and most recently, American engineers and indigenous elites in colonial Ghana and the Shan States. His postgraduate education includes M.A. degrees in Asian Studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Asian History at Ohio University (Athens), which included a minor in African history, and a PhD in History from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), which included, in addition to his core premodern South East Asian history field, teaching fields in premodern Chinese, Japanese, and Russian history and modern Southeast Asian history. After finishing his PhD at Michigan, he joined the Centre for Advanced Studies at the National University of Singapore (1999-2001), where he was a postdoctoral research fellow for two years working on migration and religion, and in the Department of History at

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