Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel: 206-616-6206
email: mpc@u.washington.edu
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 2004 – present
Director, International Studies Center, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 2004 – August 2006
Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 1999 – September 2004
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, September 2002 – December 2002
Assistant Professor, , Department of National Security Affairs, and Regional Director, Asia, Center for Civil-Military Relations, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 1995-1999
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Government, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Fields of concentration: Comparative Politics, Southeast Asia Studies, Civil-Military Relations. 1996
M.A., Political Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Fields of concentration: Comparative Politics, Southeast Asia Studies. 1991
M.Soc.Sci., Asian Politics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Field of Concentration: International Relations. 1989
M.Sc., Political Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England. Fields of Concentration: Democratic and Liberal Philosophy. 1984
B.A., with highest honors, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Fields of Concentration: American Politics, Political Theory. 1983
MONOGRAPHS (*indicates peer reviewed)
*Political Authority in Burma’s Ethnic Minority States: Devolution, Occupation and Coexistence. Policy Studies No. 31. East-West Center, Washington, D.C., 2007.
*Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma. Cornell University Press, 2003; co-published with Singapore University Press for distribution in Asia. Awarded 2006 Henry J. Benda Prize for best first book on Southeast Asia, by Association for Asian Studies.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES (*indicates peer reviewed)
“Of Kyay-zu and Kyet-su: The Burma/Myanmar Military in 2006,” in Myanmar: The State, Community and the Environment,” ed. Trevor Wilson (forthcoming from Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).
“Forecasting Failure in Southeast Asia: Burma Since the 1990s,” in Patricio N. Abinales, Ishikawa Noburu, and Tanabe Akio, eds., Dislocating Nation-States: Globalization in Asia and Africa (Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2005).
*"Making Myanmars: Language, Territory and Belonging in Post-Socialist Burma." In Boundaries and Belonging: State, Society and the Formation of Identity, ed. Joel Migdal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
*"Language Policy in Modern Burma.” In Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia, eds. Michael Brown and Sumit Ganguly (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003), 143-175.
"When Soldiers Kill Civilians: Burma's Crackdown in 1988 in Comparative Perspective," in Southeast Asia Over Three Generations: Essays Presented to Benedict Anderson, eds. Audrey Kahin and James Siegel (Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2003), 331-46.
*“State Formation in the Shadow of the Raj: Violence, Warfare and Politics in Colonial Burma,” Southeast Asia Studies, Spring 2002, 513-36.
*"Civil-Military Relations in Burma: Soldiers as State-Builders in the Postcolonial Era." In Coercion and Governance: The Declining Role of the Military in Asia, ed. Muthiah Alagappa (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), 412-29.
"Cracks in the Edifice: Military-Society Relations in Burma Since 1988." In Burma: Strong State/Weak Regime, eds. Morten Pederson and Emily Rudland (Sydney: Crawford House, 2000), 22-51.
"Civil-Military Relations in Indonesia: Reformasi and Beyond," Partnership for Democratic Governance and Security, Occasional Paper No. 4, September 1999. Available online at: http://www.pdgs.org.ar/doc-mary.htm (16 pages).
“Citizen Soldier.” In The Oxford Companion to American Military History, ed. John Whiteclay Chambers II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 119-20.
“Women in the Military.” In The Oxford Companion to American Military History, ed. John Whiteclay Chambers II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 808-9.
“Myanmar (Pyidaungsu Myanmar Naingandaw).” In The World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties, ed.George E. Delury (New York: Facts on File Press, 1999), 766-9.
*"Junta Dreams or Nightmares? Observations of Burma's Military Since 1988," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 31:3 (1999), 52-58.
*"The Sinking Schooner: Murder and the State in 'Democratic' Burma." In Gangsters, the State and Democracy in Southeast Asia, ed. Carl Trocki (Ithaca: NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1998), 17-37.
“Democracy in Burma: Lessons from History.” In “Political Legacies and Prospects for Democratic Development,” NBR Analysis 9:3 (May 1998), 5-26. Available online at http://www.nbr.org/publications/analysis/vol9no3/.
“On Time Warps and Warped Time: Lessons from Burma’s ‘Democratic Era.’” In Burma: Prospects for a Democratic Future, ed. Robert Rotberg (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1998), 49-83.
“Building an Army: The Early Years of the Tatmadaw,” Burma Debate IV:3, July/August 1997. Available online at http://www.burmaproject.org/burmadebate/julaug97bttm.html#tatmadaw.
“Burma in 1995: Looking Beyond the Release of Aung San Suu Kyi,” Asian Survey XXXVI:2, February 1996, 158-64.
“Myanmar in 1994: New Dragon or Still Dragging?” Asian Survey XXXV: 2, February 1995, 201-8.
“Burmese Research Days,” Southeast Asia Program Bulletin, Spring 1994.
RECENT EXTERNAL GRANTS
U.S. Institute of Peace. Project: “No Longer War, but Not Quite Peace: The Political Economy of Authority in Burma’s Border Regions Since 1988.” Will support the research for a book on the cessation of civil wars in Burma. $54,948. Successful. 2007
U.S. Department of Education. Project: Funding a Comprehensive National Resource Center in International Studies and Foreign Language and Area Studies Programs (tenure 2006-10), $1.8 million. Successful. 2006
AWARDS
Harry Benda Prize, for best first book on Southeast Asia, from Association for Asian Studies. 2006
Jackson School Student Service Award (departmental teaching award) 2002
Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington. 2001
Instructional Recognition Award, Naval Postgraduate School. 1998
Commendation for Excellence in Teaching (awarded to top five percent of teachers at the Naval Postgraduate School) 1997
Lauriston Sharp Prize for Outstanding Dissertation on Southeast Asia, Cornell University. 1997
Phi Beta Kappa, elected to membership. 1982
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, elected to membership. 1982
CONFERENCE AND RESEARCH PAPERS
““After the Monks: Conflict in Burma in 2008,” presented to the East-West Center Conference on Internal Conflicts and State Building Challenges in Asia, 25-28 March 2008.
“Of Kyay-zu and Kyet-su: The Tatmadaw in 2006,” presented to the 2006 Burma/Myanmar Update Conference, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 17 July 2006.
“All Necessary Instructions: State-Society Relations in the Ethnic Minority States of Burma,” presented to the East-West Center Second Study Group Meeting on Burma, State-Building Challenges in Asia, July 10-11, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand.
"Where is Japan? Founding Myths and the Japanese Occupation in Burma's Defense Services Museum," to Symposium Reconsidering the Japanese Military Occupation of Burma, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, 10 October 2004.
"Against the Tide: The Survival of Burma's Military State in the Era of Globalization," to International Symposium on Regions in Globalization, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 25-27 October 2002.
"Temples of Doom: Military Museums in Southeast Asia," Workshop on Art, Media and Violence in Southeast Asia, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 10-11 May 2002.
"Speaking Power to Truth: Military Commemoration in Postwar Burma," delivered to annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., 5 April 2002.
“Temples of Doom: Military Museums in Indonesia, Thailand and Burma,” to Conference on Mass Political Violence in 20th Century Southeast Asia, University of California, Berkeley, 17 February 2001.
“Burma: From the Inside Looking Out,” to Conference on Strategic Rivalries on the Bay of Bengal: The Burma/Myanmar Nexus, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1 February 2001.
“State Formation in the Raj and its Shadow: Burma and India in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” to Conference on Area Studies: Past Experiences and Future Visions, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 19-21 January 2001.
“Silence No More: Redrawing Boundaries, Rethinking Belonging in Post-Socialist Burma,” to Workshop on Boundaries and Belonging, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 22 September 2000.
“Language Policy in Modern Burma: Fashioning an Official Language, Marginalizing All Others,” to Conference on Language and Conflict in Asia, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 16-18 June 2000.