Mary Callahan is Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Cornell University and has previously taught at the Center for Civil-Military Relations, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, and at Cornell. Her current research includes “Making Enemies: War-Making and State-Building in Burma,” an analysis of the origins of the unusually durable, isolationist and leftist military regime that has ruled Burma since 1962; “Temples of Doom: Military Museums in Southeast Asia,” a critical inquiry into the representation of history in armed forces museums in Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on the way militaries imagine their pasts, their power and their publics; and “Back to the Barracks? Asian Militaries in Democratic Reform Processes,” an analysis of changes in civil-military relations in five Asian nations that have undergone liberalization and democratization reforms to varying extents: South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Burma.
