About RCSD

Management Board

Steering Committee

Chayan Vaddhanaphuti

PhD (International Education Development). Stanford University, USA
PhD Honorary (Social Anthropology), Goteborg University, Sweden
Research interest: ethnicity & multiculturalism, regionalization of development in the Mekong sub-region, health social science, resource mangeement and border issues.

Wasan Panyagaew

PhD (Anthropology), Australian National University, Australia
Research interest: Tai/Thai culture under modernity, sociology of sport and of everyday life, anthropology of mass media, cultural Studies, border studies

Thapin Phatcharanurak

PhD (Sociology of Health), University of Nottingham, UK
Research interest: Heath Social Science, culture of health

Yos Santasombat

PhD (Anthropology)
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Research interest:
Biodiversity, Community Forests, Local Wisdom and Sustainable Development, Natural Resource Management, Farmer Society and Culture, Political Anthropology (Leader and Powers), Psychological Anthropology (Femininity and sexuality), modern and consumerism, space and ethnic identity, marginalization and displacement.