David P. Chandler

David Porter Chandler (born March 4, 1933 ) is an American historian specializing in the modern history of Cambodia and Southeast Asia.

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Chandler worked for the US Army in Washington, DC for two years after Harvard College and was a lecturer at a college in Puerto Rico . 1958 to 1966 he was an official in the US diplomatic service. He was in Phnom Penh from 1960 to 1962 and then in Colombia and Washington, DC (in the training of diplomats for Southeast Asia). In 1966 he left the diplomatic service and enrolled at Yale University , where he studied with the French Southeast Asia expert Paul Mus . In 1968 he went to the University of Michigan , where he received his doctorate on the pre-colonial history of Cambodia. In 1972 he became a Senior Lecturer and was Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies from 1979 to 1997 and Professor of History at Monash University (Monash Asia Institute) in Melbourne from 1993 to 1997 . After his retirement he was among other things visiting professor and adjunct professor for Asian Studies at Georgetown University and at other universities.

In the aftermath of the terror regime and the mass murders of the Khmer Rouge and the subsequent reconstruction, he worked for the Cambodian government (e.g. advisor to the Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap ), Amnesty International , the Asia Foundation (election observer in Cambodia) and the UNO and various US government agencies (such as the United States Agency for International Development , Department of Prisoners of War / Missing Persons of the Department of Defense).

Professor Naranhkiri Tith at Johns Hopkins University accused him of writing with sympathy for the Khmer Rouge and then for the Vietnamese occupiers of the country at the beginning of the 1970s, which Chandler rejected.

He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , Johns Hopkins University, and Cornell University .

Ben Kiernan is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

• with others: In Search of Southeast Asia. A Modern History. Edited by David Joel Steinberg. Praeger Publishers, New York et al. 1971, ISBN 0-8248-1110-0 .
• The Land and People of Cambodia. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia PA 1972, ISBN 0-397-31321-7 (HarperCollins, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-06-021129-6 ).
• A History of Cambodia. Westview Press, Boulder CO 1983, ISBN 0-86531-578-7 (4th edition, ibid. 2008, ISBN 978-0-8133-4363-1 ).
• The Tragedy of Cambodian History. Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1991, ISBN 0-300-04919-6 .
• Brother Number One. A Political Biography of Pol Pot. Westview Press, Boulder CO et al. 1992, ISBN 0-8133-0927-1 .
• Facing the Cambodian Past. Selected Essays 1971–1994. Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai 1996, ISBN 974-7047-74-8 .
• Voices from S-21. Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1999, ISBN 0-520-22005-6 .
• Coming to Cambodia. In: Anne Ruth Hansen, Judy Ledgerwood (Editor): At the Edge of the Forest. Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler (= Studies on Southeast Asia. 46). Cornell Southeast Asia Program Program, Ithaca, NY 2008, ISBN 978-0-87727-776-7 , pp. 19-20, JSTOR 10.7591 / j.ctv1nhmk8.7 , (Memories of his early years in Cambodia).

Web links

• Interview with Nicholas Farrelly, New Mandala 2007