Profile

Pornprapit Phoasavadi received a Bachelor of Fine and Applied Arts in Thai traditional music from Chulalongkorn University.  In 1995, she was a Fulbright fellow to pursue her graduate studies at the University of Washington, Seattle and received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology in 2005.  Since 2017, Pornprapit has served as Deputy Dean of International Affairs at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University. Currently, she is an associate professor of Thai traditional music at Chulalongkorn University.  She is the national liaison officer for the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), a   managing editor for the Journal of Urban Culture Research (Chulalongkorn University), and an editor of the Malaysian Journal of Music (MJM).  She also co-authored From Bangkok and Beyond: Thai Children’s Songs, Games, and Customs (2003) with World Music Press.  In 2018, she published a book Music of Nan Province, which was supported by Chulalongkorn University’s academic fund for the centennial anniversary celebration.