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About Patrick Jory
Patrick Jory teaches Southeast Asian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. He can be reached at: p.jory@uq.edu.au.
NBN Episodes hosted by Patrick:
February 22, 2026
Colonial Law Making
In 1863 the French established a protectorate over the kingdom of Cambodia. The protectorate, along with Vietnam and Laos, later became part of the co…
February 1, 2026
Waterways of Bangkok
Bangkok is one of the world’s great cities, and the central artery of that city is the Chaophraya River. Michael Hurley’s book, Waterways of Bangkok: …
December 1, 2025
Early Southeast Asia
In September 2025 the Dutch government announced that it would return to Indonesia the fossilized remains of the famous ‘Java Man’, the first known ex…
October 1, 2025
The Nature of Kingship
When we think about the way that Southeast Asian rulers governed their kingdoms, we usually think of the relationship between the rulers and the peopl…
August 1, 2025
Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties Across the Indian Ocean
From the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries new kingdoms emerged in Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia. Sovereignty in these new kingdoms was ex…
June 1, 2025
Confronting Christianity
Siam had been dealing with Christian missionaries for centuries, but from the 1830s a new wave of Protestant missionaries began to work in Siam, just …
April 1, 2025
A Maritime Vietnam
When we think of Vietnamese history, we tend to think of plucky peasant guerillas fighting for their independence against French colonial rule or Amer…
March 1, 2025
Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty
Before the creation of the European colonial states in the nineteenth century, Southeast Asia had hundreds of royal families, large and small. Today, …
December 2, 2024
Epistemology of the Past
In Cambodian history most people have heard of the great Khmer empire of Angkor, and the radical communist regime of the Khmer Rouge. But who has hear…
October 1, 2024
Subjects and Sojourners
When we think of the history of French colonialism in Indochina, we tend to think of the French in Indochina. Yet during the colonial period about 200…
August 15, 2024
Pursuing Morality
What is the right way to live? This is an old question in Western moral philosophy, but in recent years anthropologists have turned their attention to…
June 1, 2024
Incomplete Conquests
When the Spanish colonization of the Philippines began in 1565, early reports boasted of mass conversions to Christianity and ever-increasing numbers …
April 5, 2024
Silver Screens and Golden Dreams
Within the social sciences and the humanities, international research in Burma/Myanmar studies tends to lean toward political science and Buddhist st…
March 1, 2024
Forsaken Causes
Ryan Wolfson-Ford’s provocative new book, Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos (U Wisconsin Press, 2024), is an intel…
December 1, 2023
Indigenizing the Cold War
Historians have tended to view the Cold War as a global ideological confrontation between an expansionist communist Soviet Union and a capitalist Unit…
August 1, 2023
Reconstructing God
In December 1936, a villager was led by a dream to the ruins of the West Mebon shrine in Angkor where he uncovered remains of a bronze sculpture. This…
April 1, 2023
Dynastic Democracy
When scholars analyse Thai politics, they tend to give importance to institutions like the monarchy, the military, the parliament, and political parti…
February 1, 2023
Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand
The city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand has become the destination for a growing segment of the international tourism market: religious tourism. I…
December 1, 2022
Vietnamese Migrants in Russia
Vietnam and Russia share a common socialist history dating back to the Cold War. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Vietnam’s đổi …
October 3, 2022
The Road to Dien Bien Phu
The Vietnamese victory over the French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, which ended almost a century of French colonial rule in Indochina, is one of t…
August 1, 2022
A History of Thailand
This year sees the publication of the fourth edition of the book, A History of Thailand (Cambridge UP, 2022), by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit.…
June 1, 2022
Colonizing Animals
Colonial Myanmar was teeming with animals, both wild and domesticated. Yet few histories have devoted close attention to the importance of animals to …
April 1, 2022
Disunion
In popular understandings of the modern history of Vietnam we are familiar with Ho Chi Minh’s anti-imperialism, but we know much less about the antico…
February 1, 2022
Cambodia
For many people Cambodia’s modern history is overshadowed by the devastation and horror of the Khmer Rouge era between 1975 and 1979. Yet arguably the…