Dr Philip Constable
Senior Lecturer in History
School of Humanities, Language & Global Studies
Dr Philip Constable is Senior Lecturer in the History of Asia. His research expertise is on South and South-east Asia, especially India and Thailand. He has previously taught or researched on the history and society of South Asia at a range of leading universities in India, USA and United Kingdom. This has included the University of Pune, Heras Institute at the University of Mumbai, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and University of London, SOAS.
At present, he is a Research Degrees Tutor in our School of Humanities, Languages and Global Studies, Director of the new Institute of South and Southeast Asian Studies here, Research Board Member for our Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies and journal editor for Asia-Pacific Viewpoint.
His research and publications focus on a range of subjects relating to modern South and Southeast Asia with the unifying theme of Hindu-Buddhist thought and its modern socio-political and economic practice, especially in India and Thailand, such as the study of Hindu-Buddhist Dalit mobilisation in India; Buddhism, economy, society and sustainability in 19th to 21st-century Thailand (a collaborative research project with the University of Manchester Alliance Business School); and modern Thai Buddhist art and visual culture, such as his recent book on the contemporary Thai Buddhist artist Pichai Nirand. His research has been supported by a number of grants from the Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, AHRC and Elizabeth Tuckerman Foundation.
He lectures on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on 19th and 20th-century Asia, especially on empire, nationalism, Cold War history and post Cold War politics in Asia. He established and was Course Director here of the very successful B.A. (Hons) Modern World History programme with a wide focus on modern global and international history. He also supervises and welcomes MPhil/PhD research proposals on the history and international politics of modern South and Southeast Asia, especially India, Pakistan and Thailand.
- B.A. (Hons) University of Cambridge
- M.A. University of Michigan (USA)
- PhD. University of London, SOAS
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK
- Research grants include national and international funding from the Tuckerman Foundation, INTACH, Leverhulme Trust, AHRC and British Academy for research on India and from the British Academy (Southeast Asia) for research on Thailand
- Teaching awards include the School of Humanities and Social Science Teaching Excellence Award, University of Central Lancashire, 2011
- Golden Rose Teaching Excellence Award, University of Central Lancashire, 2014
- Dalit history and society in 19th and 20th-century India.
- Buddhism, society and economy in 19th, 20th and 21st-century Asia, especially India and Thailand.
- Sustainability development and accounting in 20th and 21st century Thailand.
- Modern Thai Buddhist art and visual culture.
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
- Research Board Member of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, UCLan.
- Centre for History and Public Engagement with the Past, UCLan.
- South and Southeast Asia Editor for Asia-Pacific Viewpoint.
Dr. Philip Constable’s research expertise is on 19th and 20th-century South Asia and South-east Asia, especially India and Thailand. His research on India focuses on Dalit identity and politics in 19th and 20th-century India and its socio-political relationship with Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. He has published widely on Dalit history and politics in leading journals like the Journal of Asian Studies, Modern Asian Studies, South Asia and Scottish Historical Review. He is at present completing a monograph on Dalit history and identity in 19th and 20th-century India with funding awards from the Leverhulme Trust, AHRC and British Academy.
His research on Thailand includes a monograph entitled The Cycle of Life in the Paintings of Thai Artist Pichai Nirand (Silkworm, 2019) which analyses the interrelationship of Thai Buddhism, art and politics in the paintings of Thai artist, Pichai Nirand. He is also joint author of an on-going series of articles on Buddhism, social theory and Thai economy and society in leading critical accounting journals like Accounting, Organisations and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, in collaboration with the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, and funded by the British Academy (South-east Asia).
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- Centre for the Study of the Asia-Pacific, UCLan
- Centre for History and Public Engagement with the Past, UCLan
- Arts and Humanities Research Centre, UCLan
- Dalit history and society in 19th and 20th-century India.
- Buddhism, society and economy in 19th and 20th-century Thailand.
- PhD supervisions include the forthcoming books by Dr. Shakil Akhtar, The Politics of Betrayal on US-Pakistan international relations and by Dr. Khalid Al-Kharusi, The Dhofar War on Omani nationalism.
- A wide range of national and international research grants, including substantial funding from the Tuckerman Foundation, INTACH, Leverhulme Trust, AHRC and British Academy for research on India and from the British Academy (South-east Asia) for research on Thailand.
- A number of PhD research grants have also been awarded both by international institutions and UCLan for supervision of PhD research.
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