KEYES, Charles F.

Professor, Department of Anthropology and Jackson School of International Studies 

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Appointed:  1965.

Education:

• B.A. 1959 (with "  high distinction"  ), Anthropology and Mathematics, University of Nebraska.
• Ph.D. 1967, Anthropology, Cornell Universtiy.

Teaching Specializations: Anthropological study of religion; the Theravada Buddhism and society; ethnicity; ehtnographic field methods; anthropological theory; areas: Southeast Asia (Thailand), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma.

Field Experience/Research/Awards:

• National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, visiting professor, 1997-98
• University of Washington, Royalty Resarch Fund awards for research in Vietnam, 1995-96
• Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright), Senior Research grant for research  in Thailand and Laos, 1990-91
• Harvard University, Center for the Study of World Religions, Visiting Scholar, 1984-85
• Johm Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1984-85
• U.S. Agency for International Development Research Grant for research on Thailand, 1978-79
• Thai-American Educational Foundation (Fulbright) and Fulbright-Hays Award for teaching at  Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 1973-74
• Ford Foundation Southeast Asia fellowship Program, Fellowship for research in Thailand, 1972
• National Science Foundation Research Grants for field research in Thailand, 1966-71

Recent Publications:

• "  ultural Diversity and National Identity in Thailand,"   in Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia nd the Pacific. Michael Brown and Sunait Ganguly, eds. MIT Press (forthcoming).
• " National Heroine or Local Spirit? The Struggle over Memory in the Case of Thao Suranari of Nakhon Ratchasima"  , completed for  publication; to be included in Cultural Crisis and Social Memory:Politics of the Past in the Thai World, (forthcoming).
• " Ethnicity, Ethnic Group,"   in The Blackwell Dictionary of  Antropology, ed. Thomas J.Blarfield. Oxford, Basil Blackwell (forthcoming).
• " Nation,"  in the Blackwell Dictionary of Anthropology, ed. Thomas J. Barfield. Oxford, Basilo Blackwell (forthcoming).
• " Being Protestant Christian in Southeast Asia,: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 27.2 (1996): 280-92.
• " Who Are the Tai?  Reflections on the Invention of Local, Ethnic and National Identities,"   in Ethnic Change, Lola-Romanucci-Ross and George A. De Vos, eds.  Third Edition.  Alta Mira Press, 1995.