Arjun Subrahmanyan is a Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. His forthcoming books are a sole authored monograph, Amnesia: A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand (SUNY Press, 2021), and a co-authored monograph (with Sandra Wilson, Michael Sturma, Dean Aszkielowicz and J. Charles Schencking), The U.S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-1945 (Routledge Press, 2022).