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Wyatt, David Kent was born on September 21, 1937 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Kenneth Hall and Rebecca Westervelt (Chasteney) Wyatt.
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Preeminent Southeast Asian scholar David Wyatt brings together in this volume all his major early articles. Written between 1963 and 1988, they cover Thai history from the early history of Siam, the "family politics" of the Ayudhya and Bangkok periods, the so-called "First Reign," the dramatic reign of King Chulalongkorn, and up to the origins of modern Thailand.
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Wyatt, David Kent was born on September 21, 1937 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Kenneth Hall and Rebecca Westervelt (Chasteney) Wyatt.
He studied philosophy at Harvard University, and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1959. He furthered his studies at Boston and Cornell University, respectively, where he graduated with an Master of Arts in 1960 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1966, both in history.
He taught at Cornell University from 1969 to 2002, and also served as Chair of the Cornell University Department of History and as the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1993. His book Thailand: A Short History has become the chief authority on Thai history in the English language. He was raised in Iowa.
His dissertation, which discussed political reform in Thailand, was published in 1969 as Thailand: The Politics of Reform.
He learned to speak Thai fluently. Before receiving his doctorate, Wyatt accepted a teaching position at the University of London"s School of Oriental and African Studies–where he taught until 1968.
After teaching for a year at the University of Michigan, he returned to the Cornell Department of History in 1969–the same year he served as the doctoral advisor to the late historian Benjamin Batson–and taught there until his retirement in 2002. He was the Department"s Chair for a time.
He was president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1993.
In October 2005, he sold his library–consisting of roughly 15,000 volumes, many of them written in Thai, including Thai royal journals–to the Southeast Asia Collection at Ohio University. Death
Wyatt was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1995, but continued to travel extensively until his death. He died at the age of 69 on November 15, 2006 from complications of emphysema and congestive heart failure in the Hospicare Residence in Ithaca, New New York
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Member Association for Asian Studies (vice president 1992-1993, president since 1993), The Siam Society, Royal Asiatic Society (Malaysian branch).
Married Alene Frances Wilson, July 15, 1959. Children– Douglas Stewart, Andrew Richard, James Wilson.