Tyrell Haberkorn

Professor of Southeast Asian Studies

College of Letters & Science | Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

Tyrell Haberkorn researches and writes about state violence and dissident cultural politics in Thailand from the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932 until the present. She is the author of Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law and Violence (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011) and In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). Her most recent book, Dictatorship on Trial, a condensed history of injustice during the recent dictatorship of the National Council for Peace and Order in the form of rewritten court judgments, was published by Stanford University Press in June 2024. She is currently translating Prontip Mankhong’s prison memoir, All They Could Do To Us [มันทำร้ายเราได้แค่นี้แหละ] and writing a history of Thailand through the lens of political imprisonment. Tyrell also writes and translates frequently about Southeast Asia for a public audience, including Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Mekong Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, openDemocracy, and Prachatai.

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