David Chandler
Prof. David Chandler is an Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He has degrees from Harvard College, Yale University and the University of Michigan.
Between 1960 and 1962, Dr. Chandler served as a language officer in the US Embassy in Phnom Penh.
He taught Southeast Asian history and other subjects at Monash from 1972 until his retirement in 1997, and from 1979 to 1997 he served as director of the University’s Centre of Southeast Asian Studies.
Dr Chandler has held visiting appointments at Cornell University, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, the University of Paris, and the University of Wisconsin.. His books include A History of Cambodia (4th edition, 2008); The Tragedy of Cambodian History (1991) and Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison (1999).
Since 1990, Dr Chandler has visited Cambodia over twenty times. Dr Chandler has been a consultant for the Asia Foundation, Amnesty International, the Documentation Center of Cambodia, the Center for Khmer Studies, Living History Forum (Stockholm) UNHCR, the US Department of Defense and the World Bank. He married Susan Saunders in 1967. The Chandlers have three grown children and live in South Yarra, Victoria.