Prof Penny Edwards

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Prof Penny Edwards

Penny Edwards is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the award-winning Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945 (Hawai’i University Press), and has edited and co-edited seven volumes and journal issues, most recently Memory Thickness: Presenting Southeast Asian Pasts , Issue 21 (2016) of the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia . Her current book projects are Incognito: How princes travel , on the Myngun Prince of Burma, and a translation of Soth Polin's novel L'anarchiste excerpts of which have appeared in Words Without Borders and Mekong Review . She has published over twenty five articles on the cultural and colonial histories of Cambodia, Burma and Chinese migrations, most recently “Archival Detours: Sourcing Colonial History” in Fiona Paisley and Kirsty Reid, ed. Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive (London: Routledge, 2017), and “Watching the Detectives: the Elusive Exile of Prince Myngoon of Burma” in Ronit Ricci (Ed) Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration Honolulu: Hawaii University Press (2016).