Michael W. Charney

Michael W. Charney (born 27 December 1967) is a military historian of Asia, a Myanmar specialist, and a Professor of Asian and Military History at SOAS University of London, where he teaches international security, strategic studies, and Asian military history. He is one of contributing authors of Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History.

Academic career His has M.A. degrees in Asian Studies at the University of Michigan and Asian History at Ohio University. After receiving his PhD in History at the University of Michigan in 1999, Charney joined the Centre for Advanced Studies at the National University of Singapore (1999-2001) as a postdoctoral research fellow for two years working on migration studies and religion studies.

In 2001, he began teaching in the history department at SOAS. From 2003 to 2010, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research. The Encyclopedia of Empire (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) Warfare in Early Modern South East Asia: Special Issue of South East Asia Research (Taylor & Francis, 2004) Asian Migrants and Education: The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and Among Migrant Groups (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003) Approaching Transnationalism: Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts and Imaginings of Home (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003) Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora (Singapore University Press, 2003)