Tomas Larsson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College.
He received a PhD in Government from Cornell University in 2007. From 1990 to 2000, he worked as a freelance journalist based in Southeast Asia.
As an undergraduate, he studied East and Southeast Asian Studies and Thai at Lund University, Sweden.
Dr Larsson welcomes postgraduate applications on topics relating to Southeast Asian politics in general and the politics of Thailand in particular.
He is particularly interested in research projects that focus on state formation, Buddhism and politics, democratisation, economic development, and political ideology in Southeast Asia.
He has supervised MPhil and PhD theses on a wide range of topics, including Cambodian nationalism; constitutionalism in Thailand and Japan; central banking in Thailand; the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia; opposition politics in Malaysia; political culture in Singapore; social movements in Thailand; sex trafficking in Cambodia and the Philippines; ASEAN and human rights; Malaysian foreign policy; Singaporean foreign policy; ethnic violence in Indonesia; the Rohingya refugee crisis.