Eric Charles Thompson

Eric Charles Thompson is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Before joining NUS, he completed a PhD in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Washington and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California Los Angeles. He is co-editor of the Asian Journal of Social Sciences and associate editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. He teaches anthropology, gender studies, Southeast Asian studies, and research methods. He has conducted research for three decades throughout Southeast Asia, primarily in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. His research interests include transnational networking, gender studies, urban-rural interactions, planetary urbanization, agrarian transitions, culture theory, and ASEAN regionalism.