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\n\tResearch Interest: Queer Theory, Sociology of Human Rights, Sociology of Humor, Postcolonial\/Decolonial Theory, and Internet Culture<\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Research:<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n\t IN ENGLISH<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 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.<\/p>\n \u2022 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-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Mayer and Elisabeth Vanderheiden, 405-421. Cham: Springer.<\/p>\n \u2022 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.<\/p>\n \u2022 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.<\/p>\n IN THAI<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 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.<\/p>\n \u2022 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.<\/p>\n \u2022 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\/.<\/p>\n \u2022 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.<\/p>\n \u2022 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.<\/p>\n \u2022 Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2017. “Collective Identity of “Page-Nongng” as Queer Epistemology.” Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 36 (2): 65-88.<\/p>\n \u2022 Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong. 2014. “Politics of (Ab)normality: Looking Yingluck Shinawatra through a Queer Lens.” Journal of Social Sciences 44 (2): 71-90.<\/p>\n \u2022 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<\/p>\n\t<\/strong>Education<\/strong>: Teaching Experience:<\/strong><\/p>\nTEACHING COURSES (BACHELOR’S DEGREE)<\/strong> \u2022 Other Faculties and Schools<\/strong><\/p>\nAY 2019
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\n2009-2013
\nFaculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University [THAILAND]
\nBA in Political Science (International Relations) (Second Class Honor)\n2016-2017
\nLondon School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) [UNITED KINGDOM]
\nMSc in Development Studies (Merit)\n2023-Present
\nNational University of Singapore (NUS) [SINGAPORE]
\nPhD in Sociology\n
\n\u2022 Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>\nAY 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
\nSA418\/SA419 Individual Research\/Individual Study\nAY 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
\nSO350 Social Change\nAY 2022
\nSO353 Criminology\nAY 2020
\nSO355 Sociology of Queer\nAY 2019, 2021, 2022
\nSO446 Sociology and Postcolonialism\nAY 2018
\nSO456 Sociology of Development\nAY 2018, 2019, 2020
\nTU121 Human and Society\n
\nIAC401 Research Methodology in Social Science and Humanities\nAY 2022
\nIP325 Human Rights\nAY 2019, 2020
\nPCD313 Issues in Gender and Development\nAY 2019, 2020, 2021
\nTU101 Thailand, ASEAN,and the World\n