Thailand Category
Fruitful Work in Thailand, Winter 2023-2024
Posted on February 13, 2024 1 Comment
13 February 2024 This winter, I had the privilege to travel to Thailand with family for an assortment of professional and personal activities that were wonderfully fruitful — literally and figuratively. While our time was action-packed, I want to highlight my experience leading my study abroad program and my time guest lecturing at Chulalongkorn University. […]
There and Back Again
Posted on August 11, 2022 Leave a Comment
11 August 2022 My apologies to diehard Tolkien fans for borrowing the title of Bilbo Baggins’ book of adventures for a post about our trip to Thailand May-July 2022. My guess is you’ll understand why I chose this title by the end of this post. We left for Thailand on May 18. I got the […]
Traveling to learn
Posted on May 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
15 May 2022 Sitting in my office reading chair –– a floral wingback that didn’t quite have a place in my house –– I decide to continue the book I’m reading before resuming grading. Thankfully, I have acquired the skill of reading for pleasure despite a haunting to-do list staring at me from my desk. […]
The Importance of Early Experiences in Scholarship
Posted on February 6, 2022 Leave a Comment
6 February 2022 Out for a run in my Baton Rouge neighborhood, I listen to a podcast by author and journalist Sebastian Strangio about his updated book on Hun Sen and Cambodia published by Yale University Press. I don’t typically listen to podcasts while running, but the lack of trails within running distance from my […]
Summer Research Conclusion
Posted on September 14, 2016 Leave a Comment
September 14, 2016 Much to my dismay, summer has ended and classes have begun again here at GW. I am so grateful to the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the Elliot School for International Affairs here at GW for affording me the opportunity to conduct a research project this summer in Thailand and Myanmar through the […]
The Land of Golden Pagodas
Posted on February 26, 2016 Leave a Comment
February 26, 2016 I remember picking up Freedom From Fear in 2009 off a dusty bookshelf in Chiang Mai and reading the powerful essays of Myanmar’s (Burma’s) pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. It was in those pages my interest in Myanmar began. With a voracious appetite I devoured several other books by Aung San Suu Kyi […]
Happy Songkran at the Thai Embassy
Posted on April 26, 2015 Leave a Comment
Thanks to my beloved friend, Tina Neville, I had the chance to attend a Songkran celebration at the Thai Embassy last week here in Washington, D.C. I was thankful to meet the new Ambassador of Thailand to the United States, Pisan Manawapat, who took over for Vijavat Isarabhakdi in February. We talked on two occasions […]
My Journey to The George Washington University
Posted on April 18, 2015 2 Comments
Last month I spoke to the Dean’s Council at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development about the story of my journey to GW. I thought I would share some of that story here on my blog as well: My name is Oliver Crocco but you can call me Ozzie. I’m a first year […]
Oliver S. Crocco 