Michael Aung-Thwin

Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin (1946 – August 14, 2021; ) was a Burmese American historian and emeritus professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, specializing in early Southeast Asian and Burmese history.

Early life and education Aung-Thwin was born in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) in 1946. Aung-Thwin's mother, Margaret Hope Aung-Thwin, of mixed Anglo-Burmese, Karen, and Arakanese descent, was a Fulbright scholar and lecturer. He attended Kodaikanal International School in South India, where his mother taught.

Death Aung-Thwin died at his home in Hawaii on August 14, 2021, after a long illness.

Publications Pagan: The Origins of Modern Burma (1985) Myth & history in the historiography of early Burma (1998) The Mists of Ramanna: The Legend that was Lower Burma (2005) A History of Myanmar Since Ancient Times: Traditions and Transformations (2013)