Charles Keyes

Charles Keyes, has since the early 1960s carried out extensive research primarily in Thailand, but also in and about Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar/Burma and southern China. He has authored, edited or co-edited 15 books, monographs or special issues of journals and published over 85 articles. His latest book, Finding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State, traces the evolution of relationships between Lao-speaking rural people in northeastern Thailand and the Thai state from a millenarian uprising in 1902 to the electoral successes of populist parties in the first decades of the 21st century. Although formally retired at the end of 2006, Keyes continued until 2011 to teach part time at the University of Washington. In 2013 he and his wife moved to Portland where they now live.