Carlyle thayer biography

Carlyle (Carl) A. Thayer (born November 5, 1945, Nevada City, California) is the.
Carl Thayer is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Visiting Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra (February 2018-December 2020).
Carl Thayer is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the UNSW's School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Carlyle (Carl) A. Thayer (born November 5, 1945, Nevada City, California) is the son of a career U.S. Army officer (West Point 1939). He is a dual US-Australian citizen. He lived in Boston, Arlington (Va), Germany, France,Germany (again), Pittsburgh, Taiwan, Schenectady (NY) and Puerto Rico. He attended Guilderland Central High School in upstate New York for three years and graduated from Antilles High School in San Juan, Puerto Rico when his father was transferred there. Carl graduated from Brown University with a degree in political science (1967). He then served in Vietnam with the International Voluntary Services (1967-68) and in Botswana with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (1968-69). He completed a two-year M.A. degree in Southeast Asian Studies at Yale (1971). In a momentous decision, he undertook PhD studies at The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra (PhD 1977). His academic career included four years at the Bendigo Institute of Technology/College of Advanced Education (1975-78) and then 31 years with The University of New South Wales (UNSW), teac

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Carlyle Thayer, PhD, has been Inducted into the Prestigious Marquis Who's Who Biographical Registry

Dr. Thayer is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on Vietnam and the South China Sea

ARANDA, ACT, AUSTRALIA, April 28, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Carlyle Thayer, PhD, has been inducted into Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Dr. Thayer is renowned as a professor emeritus of politics and one of the world's leading authorities on Vietnam and the South China Sea. He was educated at Brown University, graduating in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts. He subsequently obtained a Master of Arts at Yale University in 1971. Dr. Thayer later earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the Australian National University in 1977.

Dr. Thayer credits his interest in Southeast Asia to his instructors at Brown University, who encouraged

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Emeritus Professor Carlyle Thayer

Biography

Carlyle A. Thayer is Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales (UNSW) at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), Canberra. Thayer studied political science at Brown and was awarded an M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies from Yale (1971) and a PhD in International Relations from The Australian National University (ANU, 1977). He served in Vietnam with the International Voluntary Services (1967-68). Thayer first taught at the Bendigo Institute of Technology/Bendigo College of Advanced Education in Victoria from 1975 to 1978. He joined the UNSW in 1979 and taught first in the Faculty of Military Studies at The Royal Military College-Duntroon before transferring to University College at ADFA in 1985. He was head of the Department of Politics (1995-97), promoted to full Professor in 1998 and formally retired in 2010. Thayer was given ‘leave in the national interest’ to take up a senior appointment at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Pacific Command, Hawaii (1999-20