TINNAPHOP SINSOMBOONTHONG

Ph.D. (Sociology)

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Research Interest: Queer Theory, Sociology of Human Rights, Sociology of Humor, Postcolonial/Decolonial Theory, and Internet Culture

Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong (Tintin) (they/them) is a sociologist, online ethnographer, discourse analyst, amateur comedian, and currently a Ph.D. student in sociology at NUS and is also a recipient of the Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) – NUS Joint Doctoral Scholarship Programme. Tintin holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Chulalongkorn University and a master’s degree in development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). They are currently on study leave and will return to the Assistant Professor in Sociology position at the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University, Thailand, in 2028.

Research:

Currently, Tintin’s doctoral thesis focuses on understanding the cultural making of “queer humor” through jokes, parodies, and memes in “Nongng,” a queer online community in Thailand, and how these humorous practices that were used as “weapons of the weak” against the military junta in recent years are now used to challenge the existing universal notion of “rights” and the culture of “woke” on internet.


Publications:

IN ENGLISH

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong, Watinee Wichaiya, and Saranya Tarat. 2021. Research on Barriers and Opportunities to Improving Outcomes for Women Migrant Workers through Skills Development in Thailand. Bangkok: UN Women.

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2021. “On Homosexual Love and Right to Same-Sex Marriage: Questioning the Paradox of #LoveWins Discourse.” In International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Claude-Hélène Mayer and Elisabeth Vanderheiden, 405–421. Cham: Springer.

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2020. “Cultural Hybridity of K-Pop Music: From the West to South Korea, from South Korea to the Globe.” Journal of Language and Culture 39(2): 65–83.

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2017. “Politics of “Pang-Nongng,” Politics of Nonsense: Deformalization, Subaltern Space, Collective Identity.” Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Thai Studies (ICTS): Globalized Thailand? Connectivity, Conflict, and Conundrums of Thai Studies, Chiang Mai (Thailand), July 15–18: 1615–1635. Accessed on 1 May 2021. https://icts13.chiangmai.cmu.ac.th/documents/FIINAL_R-SRI_NEW_MARCH_2019.pdf.

IN THAI

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2022. “Editorial: When New-Generation Sociologists-Anthropologists Make Transdisciplinary Dialogues.” In Sociology and Anthropology in the Multi-/Inter-/TransDisciplinary Turn, edited by Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong, v–xxxiv. Pathum Thani: Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University.

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2022. “Sociological Dialogues with Sexology: From Biological Sex to Gender, from Sexual Essentialism to Queerness.” In Sociology and Anthropology in the Multi-/Inter- /Trans-Disciplinary Turn, edited by Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong, 241–275. Pathum Thani: Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University.

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong, Watinee Wichaiya, and Saranya Tarat. 2021. Development of Good Practice Guidelines on Skills Development for Migrant Workers. Bangkok: IOM. Accessed on 23 August 2021. https://mitrthai.com/employers/skills_development/%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A7%E0%B 8%9B%E0%B8%8F%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8% 97%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%83%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%81 %E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%B1/.

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2020. “K-Pop Music and Globalization.” In Korea Today: Society and Culture, edited by Noppadol Chartprasert, 119–135. Pathum Thani: Institute of East Asian Studies, Thammasat University.

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2019. “Challenging the Discourse of the Universality of Gender Mainstreaming of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).” Journal of Social Sciences49(1): 127–150.

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2017. “Collective Identity of “Page-Nongng” as Queer Epistemology.” Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 36 (2): 65–88.

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2014. “Politics of (Ab)normality: Looking Yingluck Shinawatra through a Queer Lens.” Journal of Social Sciences 44 (2): 71–90.

• Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2014. “Ethnic Conflict between Myanmar Military Government and Kachin: Consequence of Burmanization Policy and Chinese Expansion.” Journal of Politics and Governance: Current Issues in ASEAN 4 (1): 233–255

Education:

2009-2013
Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University [THAILAND]
BA in Political Science (International Relations) (Second Class Honor)

2016-2017
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) [UNITED KINGDOM]
MSc in Development Studies (Merit)

2023-Present
National University of Singapore (NUS) [SINGAPORE]
PhD in Sociology

Teaching Experience:

TEACHING COURSES (BACHELOR’S DEGREE)
Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University

AY 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
SA418/SA419 Individual Research/Individual Study

AY 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
SO350 Social Change

AY 2022
SO353 Criminology

AY 2020
SO355 Sociology of Queer

AY 2019, 2021, 2022
SO446 Sociology and Postcolonialism

AY 2018
SO456 Sociology of Development

AY 2018, 2019, 2020
TU121 Human and Society

• Other Faculties and Schools

AY 2019
IAC401 Research Methodology in Social Science and Humanities

AY 2022
IP325 Human Rights

AY 2019, 2020
PCD313 Issues in Gender and Development

AY 2019, 2020, 2021
TU101 Thailand, ASEAN,and the World

• Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore (NUS) [TUTORIAL]

AY 2023
SC3216 Self and Society

AY 2023
GES1035/GESS1025 Singapore: Imagining the Next 50 Year

TEACHING COURSES (MASTER’S DEGREE)
• Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University

AY 2022
SA611 Gender and Sexuality Issues in Contemporary Society

AY 2021
SA615 Postcolonial Sociology

Contact Info
Email ID: e1154483@u.nus.edu